When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.

For people who don't know, the fundraiser works like this: people donate to Worldbuilders and they're automatically entered to win geeky swag in the lottery. We're just starting week two and we're already giving away more than $40,000 of books and games.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

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

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?