For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

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.

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.