My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.
More Quotes by Jean M. Auel
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.