The Chicago Sun-Times calls your work “A fantasy tale seldom equaled and still more seldom surpassed in English.” This is rather high praise! What does fantasy mean to you? Why would you decide to write epic fantasy?
It is certainly high praise—embarrassingly high! I chose fantasy in a large part because of its flexibility. It is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face in fantasy, and while one of the themes of the books is the difficulty of telling right from wrong at times, these things are important to me. There are always shades of gray in places and slippery points—simple answers are so often wrong—but in so much “mainstream” fiction, there isn’t anything except gray areas and slippery points, and there isn’t 10 cents worth of moral difference between “the good guys” and “the bad guys.” If, indeed, the whole point in those books isn’t that there is no difference. Besides, while I read fairly widely, fantasy has been in there since the beginning. My older brother used to read to me when I was very small, and among my earliest memories are listening to him read Beowulf and Paradise Lost . I suppose some of it “took.”
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