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

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

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.

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Im always trolling for trivia.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.