Syndicate Is Technically The First

Good Authors Mature Over Time: It Does Take Awhile. Travel Abroad And Learn To Live In Other Cultures. That's One Of The Things About Teaching Abroad.

Culture Is Like A Smog. To Live Within It, You Must Breathe Some Of It In And, Inevitably, Be Contaminated.

War Is Like Any Other Bad Relationship. Of Course You Want Out, But At What Price? And Perhaps More Importantly, Once You Get Out, Will You Be Any Better Off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

I Think Certainly If I'd Started Getting Published When I Was In My Early Twenties, I Was Quite Sheltered Then And Didn't Know Anything Much About The World. I Hadn't Had Any Direct Experience Of How The World Works.

Certainly A Decade And A Half Out In The Real World, Bashing My Head Against Things, Probably Made Me Into A More Textured Writer. It Gives You Something To Write About.