It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.

...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.

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.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil