Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope..

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic..

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave..

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of m….

He had given her too much. He had given her everything..

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend.

What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in hi….

The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as thi….

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator..

Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl straightened in protest. “Unde….

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature..

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, m….

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some ….

The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the….

So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buy….

Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone'….

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves..

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there..

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity..