The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.