I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

We must think beyond ourselves

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.