A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.

If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.