Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

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• Jane Lindskold:

  A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealist

• Jane Lindskold:

  When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fa

• Jane Lindskold:

  In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had

• Jane Lindskold:

  The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean th

• Jane Lindskold:

  Diana Wynne Jones' excellent book 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland' is a compendium of the sort of l

• Jane Lindskold:

  My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of f

• Jane Lindskold:

  I realize that, to many readers, Hard Fantasy may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Fantasy, acc

• Jane Lindskold:

  The futuristic city on 'Legends Walking's cover rejects any connection with the contemporary settin

• Jane Lindskold:

  'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orde

• Jane Lindskold:

  Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art