That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh.

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.

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.

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

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.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.