 Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write. |
| I really fell in love with Africa. |
| 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 that readers of the genre might enjoy my books. |
| I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. |
| I'm just writing a story that I want to read. |
| 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'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. |
| My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. |
| Life sometimes gets in the way of writing. |
| 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. |
| 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 basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. |
| I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores. |
| From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it. |
| No, my publisher has always done the marketing. |
| I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them. |
| Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive. |
| The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story. |
| I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it. |
| 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 simple historical fact to weave my stories around. |
| 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 twenty years. |
| Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. |
