Book Interviews

"To succeed you cannot think your writing is perfect or that first draft is perfect or that your story can’t change."

Rather than just tell short biographies of the 16 cartoonists featured, this impressive and fascinating book has other cartoonists draw the images accompanying the biographies in each cartoonist's unique style. So, for example, the biography of R. Crumb looks like something Crumb would have drawn.

"If you nourish your writing and your writing process, it will become stronger."

What if someone was born with an IQ of an unheard-of level of 550? And what if as a baby he was tossed in a trash can?

Jim Butcher talks comics, RPGs, and the next Dresden Files book, 'Peace Talks.'

"NOW is the best time in the history of authors to write and publish because there are so many options."

"My notions of success are emotionally driven; certainly not defined in sales figures."

Never stop editing your own work because you’ll always find ways to make it better."

"I hope that readers of 'The Unholy' will feel the top of their heads pop off."

Sometimes I had to decide whether to be faithful to history or to my fiction. I almost always chose the latter – unless it was about a huge historical event. You can’t pretend that Hitler didn’t exist, for instance, or that Stalin was married to Marilyn Monroe – unless you’re writing a farce.