Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.