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

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.

Mama took me in her arms and held me tight. Her embrace was hot and she smelled like sweat, dust, and grease, but I wanted her. I wanted to crawl inside her mind to find that place that let her smile and sing through the worst dust storms. If I had to be crazy, I wanted my mama's kind of crazy, because she was never afraid.

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

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

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.