 Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can. |
| The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly. |
| Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. |
| That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. |
| I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again. |
| Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously. |
| The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. |
| I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember. |
| I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price. |
| I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored. |
| I now have to find a reason to write, every single day. |
| For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. |
