Obviously It Could Be, Because It Was.

At This Slower Pace The Journey Took A Couple Of Days, And I Fought Off A Few Minor Threats Along The Way --griffins, Carnivorous Plants, Giant Serpents, Hostile Centaurs, That Sort Of Thing, Purely Routine --and I Was Beginning To Get Bored When At Last The Dusky Towers Of Castle Roogna Hove Into View.

I Do One Xanth Novel A Year, Because At The Moment That Is All That Publishers Will Accept; They Don't Want Any Other Type Of Fiction From Me, So Xanth Pays My Way.

Polishing: A Useful Lesson For The Hopeful Writer. You Say Your Tormented Prose Doesn't Read As Well As Mine? Neither Does Mine, At First!

Here's A Secret: Fictive Text Doesn't Necessarily Flow Easily. Most Of The Time It's More Like Cutting A Highway Through A Mountain. You Just Have To Keep Working With Your Pick, Chipping Away At The Rock, Making Slow Progress.

I Maintain An Ongoing Survey Of Internet Publishing And Self Publishing, So That It Is Now Possible For Any Writer With A Book To Get It Published At Nominal Cost Or Free, And To Have It On Sale At Booksellers Like Amazon.com.