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

Bullying is not okay. Period.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

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

An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.

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.