Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.

Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.