A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

I'm always trolling for trivia.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.