Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

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'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

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

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

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.

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.