During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

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.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.