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- I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which…
- Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
- As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I…
- First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there?…
- I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and…
- I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.
- I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
- I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend…
- If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this…
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