The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.