You Cannot Poison What Is Between Us

My Advice To Aspiring Writers Of Fantasy Trilogies Or Series Is That Each Book Needs Two Main Plots. There's The 'big Story', The Over-arching Grand Plot Of The Entire Series, And There Is The Complete-in-itself, One-book Plot.

But There Is One Thing You Must Remember, If You Forget All Else. There Is No Good Or Evil, Save In The Way You See The World. There Is No Dark Or Light Save In Your Own Vision. All Changes In The Blink Of An Eyelid; Yet All Remains The Same.

As A Novelist, I'm Endlessly Fascinated By Human Behavior And Interactions.

A Wonder Tale Can Be Truer Than True," I Said. I Had Learned (...) That The Deepest Kind Of Truth Can Be Found In The Strangest And Wildest Of Stories. One May Not Meet A Fire-breathing Dragon On The Way To The Well. One May Not Encounter An Army Of Toothed Snakes In The Woodshed. That Does Not Make The Wisdom In Those Tales Any Less Real.

More Like Some Small, Fierce Bird Of Prey, Something With A Sharp Bite. An Owl Perhaps, That Speaks Only When The Rest Of The World Sleeps. Jenny Will Do Well Enough.