As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.