Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.

You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.