I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

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.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.