All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.