The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D gam….

Shared world has done some world building and brings (in the case of FR and SW) a big audience. With your own work, you're more creatively free. In a….

The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in that they take place aga….

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting..

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mau….

I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it..

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp..

Cale is my signature character in the Forgotten Realms. The most popular character I've written. He's a thief, an assassin, and eventually, a priest ….

My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth and tats. His history is hinted ….

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me..

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse)..

I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real pest of myself and get some hot, slippery Chao….

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient..

The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby..

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions..

[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't do it..

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me..