I Turned My Home State Of Florida

Polishing: A Useful Lesson For The Hopeful Writer. You Say Your Tormented Prose Doesn't Read As Well As Mine? Neither Does Mine, At First!

I Have Always Admired The Work Of Phil Farmer And Was Glad For The Chance To Work With Him. Readers Today May Be Too Young To Remember His Classics Like The Lovers.

That Most Dangerous Of Opponents: The One Who Took Pains To Comprehend The Position Of His Adversary.

At Present I Answer About 100 Letters A Month, And Read 300 Emails.

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.