New Book

I write stories to answer questions. I have idea, a scene or image, and the story comes from the questions that I ask of that scene. I see a man driving a car, and I think, "Where is he going? Where did he come from?" Stories arise from those answers. And when two scenes meet at the intersection of the answers to those scenes...well, then I know I have to write that story. It was Stephen Donaldson that said first (at least, as far as I know he said it first) that every story is the intersection of two ideas - one common, one strange. For me, those ideas meeting at the crossroads always start with the answers to questions, and usually raise more questions of their own.

So now, I have two scenes, each with a host of questions. I have to write another book to learn the answers, because even I don't know them yet.