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I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

I am fascinated with times past.

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs my writing of a certain connectedness to my time, but potentially might allow it to make sense to people who are not in this time.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.