A biography for Jean M. Auelhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.”
“Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.”
“I really fell in love with Africa.”
“Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.”
“From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.”
“I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.”
“I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.”
“I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.”
“The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.”
“Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.”
“Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.”
“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.”
“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”