But I Don't Read Or Listen For

No Novel Is A Clone Of Any Preceding One, Though With A Background Cast Of Characters And Things That Has Grown To Thousands, There Are Many Familiar Aspects.

At Present I Answer About 100 Letters A Month, And Read 300 Emails.

The Biggest Fool Is The One Who Thinks He Knows It All.

As For Collaboration - I Have Done A Lot, 26 Books, And Found Publishers Increasingly Resistive To Them. It's Not That The Books Are Bad; Editors Won't Even Read Them.

I Hope To Read A Harry Potter Novel Soon, To See What It's All About. I Admit To Being Annoyed That Many Good Light Fantasy Writers Have Had Trouble Getting Published, In England And Elsewhere, When It Is Obvious The Readers Were Waiting For Us All Along.