I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down."

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.