Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.