Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it’s the science of prehistory – palaeontology and archaeology – rather than astronomy or physics.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.
Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn’t know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I’ve ever met.
She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn’t so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.
You weren’t being punished. You were waiting for me.
I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.
I can’t tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don’t know what my influences are.
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.
No, my publisher has always done the marketing.
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it’s the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.
Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.
There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do?
The difference in the brains of men and women was imposed by nature, and only cemented by culture.