Well, dreams may not be a valid research tool, but I’ll use whatever comes to me. After all, how else am I going to find details about the life of a tenth century Viking princess?
My work is ultimately about human connection and the tales that bind us. The novels and their settings serve merely as vessels for archetypal stories and the essence of being human.
And thus Cimmy solved the problem that had tormented sages and saints forever: if there was a God, how did he allow so much evil in the world?
It was very simple. God’s reality was still a work in progress, as of yet unfinished.