I wrote the first draft of Gardens of the Moon in 1991, living in poverty on Saltspring Island. It took four and a half months. It was written on a Brother WP 500. Back then, the big publishers were still accepting unsolicited manuscripts. I made a photocopy of the novel and send it by post to Del Rey Ballantine, since they were the publishers for Steven R. Donaldson. Twelve months later the manuscript returned, with a standard cover letter of rejection. I sent it off again, this time to Tor...