...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

Bullying is not okay. Period.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my own characters and stories at the core of the books. And to be honest, I'm not smart enough to do the kind of wickedly sharp satire you get from someone like Pratchett.