An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

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

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.