Raymond E. Feist

My pleasure.

I love Australia and I can't wait to get back for another visit.

Hi, I'm Raymond E. Feist, boy writer, who's been attempting to tell a good story for about 40 years now.

Fantasy's tough in certain respects.

At the broadest level, all fiction by definition is fantasy, okay?

Fantasy, you know, you're talking other worlds, other dimensions, other realities.

So it's always magical in the largest sense of the term.

It's always wonderfully different.

And you get to see how people might function in those environments.

And at heart, I think all writers pretty much like to ask the question, why are people doing some of the damn fool things they're doing?

And by putting them in a fantasy environment, you really can crank up the pressure.

and get acts of heroism and acts of villainy and all the things that I loved in boys' fiction when I was 12 years old.