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

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

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.

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.

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 think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

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.