Richard Lewis, author of The Demon Queen, on being a writer:
I don’t know if the current economic migraine dooms this novel or not, but I find myself curiously indifferent, even if I was thinking somewhat commercial as I wrote it. I’m a writer. That’s what I do, what my lovely wife encourages me to do (and as my young daughter once said to a friend about me, “Oh, don’t mind my dad. He’s not really grumpy, he’s just writing.â€) I’m most happy when I’m unhappily writing. Writing is an exercise in a state of sustained dissonance. Yeah, sometimes I get in that much ballyhooed “zone†where scenes and words come as a babbling brook of blessing from the big beyond, but I don’t get too excited about it, because I know there is always the revision. For example, hunting down silly alliterations.
