Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.