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.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

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.

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

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.