"It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself."
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"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."
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"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
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"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."
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"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
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"I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books."
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"Im always trolling for trivia."
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"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
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