“Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other.The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.”

Armenian-Russian American writer, artist, and publisher

Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer, artist, and publisher of Norilana Books. She writes fantasy, science fiction, and other forms of wonder fiction, including mythpunk, and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She is the author of ten novels, among them Dreams of the Compass Rose, a collage novel made up of linked stories, Lords of Rainbow, an epic fantasy set in a world without color, the Cobweb Bride trilogy, and The Atlantis Grail books. Her work moves across imaginative forms and layered structures, often drawing on myth and speculative worlds.