I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

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.

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

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

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

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.

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