I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.