There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

Since fantasy isn’t about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it’s changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat’s off to them.

I’ve only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don’t count my student years.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It’s another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren’t.

I’m an artist, I’m not an academic folklorist.

I’d had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn’t have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

I’m also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

I’d like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.