For Our Stories Are Not Yet Finished,

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.

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.

In Fact, I Believe That We Need Better Sex Education In Our Own Culture, Here In America, So That Young Folk Learn About Things Like Venereal Disease Before They Encounter It.

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.

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.