I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

What I'd love more than anything is for Worldbuilders to continue to grow and become entangled in all the different corners of the geek community.

The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action, adventure, character development, the exploration of a strange world, PLUS resolution of all the problems and mysteries at the end. No lines no waiting. That's very satisfying. Multi-volume stories are satisfying too, just in a different way.

But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.