Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.