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

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

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.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

A horse is wonderful by definition.