There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.