There were days Gabriel wondered why they didn’t just hand everything over to women and be done with it.

Clever’s not enough to hold me – I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.

A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.