Their characteristics are well-known. They're beautiful -- when they're not astoundingly ugly. They're both goddesses for men to worship, and demons for them to flee. They adore children, sometimes to...
I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.
Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrentl...