Writers: believe! And go do the work . . .

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

Now that The Thorn and the Blossom has come out and I'm done with my doctoral degree (yes, I'm finally Dr. Goss), I'm turning to longer projects.

Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are currently writing. You have to learn how to write the next story all over again. And she's absolutely right.

So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase.