Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.