Wolfy asked Jane Lindskold:

Hello, I want to, first and foremost, thank you. The worlds you've built have sheltered and encouraged my imagination since my early years of scifi readership. Now that that's out of the way: How do you so gracefully switch between such intricate worlds? Each of your series has its own feel and life to it, how do you transition out of one and into another when writing?

Jane Lindskold You've made me smile! Thank you for sharing what my books have meant to you. To answer your question: How do I transition? Well, I rarely work on more than one project at a time. If I do, I make sure that I am in different phases-- writing the new material on one book, while doing edits on another. This keeps me immersed in the "right" world so that they won't become generic or intermingled. Another reason I think my works tend to feel grounded in their worlds is that I write from character point of view. I use omniscient narration in a very, very limited fashion. Even when tempted, I don't slip in cute jokes or references to current events that might throw a reader out of the alternate world.

(Apologies for the late reply! Notifications weren't reaching me until this week.)

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