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I Have Always Admired The Work Of Phil Farmer And Was Glad For The Chance To Work With Him. Readers Today May Be Too Young To Remember His Classics Like The Lovers.

I Think It's A Shame That Something As Creative And Vital To The Nature Of The Human Species As Story-telling Is Largely Controlled By The Soulless Cretins Known As Publishers.

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.

Princess Rose Should Indeed Be A Tv Movie, Assuming Something Doesn't Go Wrong. I Don't Know How Good A Movie It Will Be, Because The Way Movie Folk Think Is Different From The Way Writers Think, And I Distrust What Isn't Done My Way. This Is What I Call A Healthy Paranoia.

Normally I Work Out A General Summary Of What I Mean To Do, Then Start Writing, And The Details Can Be Different From My Anticipation. So There Is Considerable Flow, But Always Within Channels.