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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

If you can imagine something, it will be.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.

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