Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

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

Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.