When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse ….

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period a….

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not….

But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do ….

She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions..

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me..

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll ne….

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing..

Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more….

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true..

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know..

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised th….

No, my publisher has always done the marketing..

I really fell in love with Africa..

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species….

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my ….

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores..

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there..

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than si….

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy..

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for ….