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.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

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

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

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