Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe. It was nothing personal; they weren’t actually rude about it. Gods were a visible part of narrativium that made...

Most humans know better than to cross a wizard. A cat does not care.

Come on, this is a real adventure I have here, screamed Mikolay again, this time more impatiently.I think someone is singing inside the wardrobe. Can you hear that?

I didn’t dare put down the staff with Etienne popping in and out like a half-burned, bloodsucking whack-a-mole.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they’re...

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you’re wearing?

I narrowed my eyes. Jean stayed awfully well informed about prete politics, and often told me things the Elders hadn’t yet learned. I suspected this might be one of those things. “How do you know...