If You Look At The British Royal

We Sat Around On A Hotel Balcony With A Bottle Of Wine And Tried To Figure Out How You Would Go About Blowing Up A Planet. That's The Kind Of Conversations Science Fiction Writers Have When They Get Together. We Don't Talk About Football Or Anything Like That.

I've Had The Same, Full-time Assistant And Typist For Eight Or Nine Years Now. She's Read Everything I've Written, She Types Everything And Does A Good Job, Translates It And Makes Comments.

Telling Your Story Out Loud Is The Way Human Beings Communicate. We Don't Normally Think Up Words, Translate How To Spell Them And Then Move Our Fingers Up And Down Over This Randomly Arranged Set Of Keys To Make The Same Letters Appear On A Screen.

Elantris Is A New Ben Hur For The Fantasy Genre, With A Sweeping, Epic Storyline And Closely Personal Characters.

We Wanted To Write The First Prequels As A Story That Anyone Could Pick Up.