No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.