People Talk-- They Sneer At Escapism. Well,

At This Slower Pace The Journey Took A Couple Of Days, And I Fought Off A Few Minor Threats Along The Way --griffins, Carnivorous Plants, Giant Serpents, Hostile Centaurs, That Sort Of Thing, Purely Routine --and I Was Beginning To Get Bored When At Last The Dusky Towers Of Castle Roogna Hove Into View.

No Novel Is A Clone Of Any Preceding One, Though With A Background Cast Of Characters And Things That Has Grown To Thousands, There Are Many Familiar Aspects.

But One Must Go Where One's Road Leads, Even When It's A Distressing Road.

I Did Not Know At First That It Would Be A Series; I Discovered After The First Novel That I Had More To Say About It, So I Did Another. And Another, And Then The Readers Demanded Yet More.

Every Person Professes To Love Good And Hate Evil, But In His Actions His Real Preferences Emerges.