What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
Laurell K. HamiltonI turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.
Laurell K. HamiltonNo such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.
Laurell K. HamiltonOne of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
Laurell K. Hamilton