The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have s….

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky….

A good novel editor is invisible..

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I t….

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them..

We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. ….

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new mate….

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no l….

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before..

Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for s….

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic fol….

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed..

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past..

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years..

The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a….

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent i….

Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in trouble. And this is what she did...and what he did...….

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions w….

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract….

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, int….

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult f….