“I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.” –Robert Louis Stevenson Soon after beginning The Year of the Red Door, I realized that I needed to make some maps. At first, crudely sketched maps of places in relation … Read more…
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” I know it’s a cliche, but the most wonderful things sometimes do come in the smallest packages. One … Read more…
Some of the most frequent questions that I get concerning The Year of the Red Door are about how to pronounce certain words, particularly names of characters. “However you’d like to,” is how I usually answer. Frowns typically ensue. So how do I pronounce these names? I’ll just go … Read more…
If I could have written The Year of the Red Door as historical fiction, or even as contemporary “literary” fiction, I certainly would have. But the things I wanted to explore, and the direction that the story took, decided for me that it should be fantasy. So when it came … Read more…
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