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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

All my life I have been a nomad.

I'm a nomad.

All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.

I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

I think I was a nomad in another life.

I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.

The only thing that changes in my novels are the locations.