...Literary traditions aren’t as much guilty of misrepresentation as they are of focusing too much on the “good guy” in my opinion. For the hero of the story to be heroic, he or she needed to face implacable evil. It would have been very inconvenient to peek behind the curtain of evil to see that the dragon is protecting vulnerable young....
. . . I’ve always been a huge werewolf fan, but it wasn’t until I came up with the idea of writing a human living among them that I knew I really wanted to write my own werewolf book . . .
. . . When I write, I try to say the things my readers may be thinking but are afraid to say themselves. The best compliment I can get is when a reader says, “How did you know?” . . .