I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

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 suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.