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

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

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

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.