Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write..

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story..

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are..

There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans..

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I….

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body..

She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more dem….

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and ….

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 ….

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….

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

No, my publisher has always done the marketing..

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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 ….

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….

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..