Sean Williams talks to Gary Kemble:

When I first tried my hand at fantasy, I thought I was doomed because I couldn’t describe the sort of landscapes you find in The Lord of the Rings and similar novels: the snow-capped mountains, the wide rivers, the forests. I’ve never seen anything like this, having grown up mainly along the line stretching down the middle of Australia, from Darwin to Adelaide. It eventually occurred to me that fantasy could be set in such landscapes just easily as anywhere else; all I had to do was let go of my preconceptions and make it happen.