>>One of my signature things is that I like to inject humor into even the most serious works when I can, because life just works like that sometimes, and because humor is how I cope with the world myself.<<

I don't necessarily put humor into all my stories, but I do in many. The flavor varies a lot though. Darker stories tend to have dry or graveyard humor. There's a scene in "Confliction" that's both wacky and poignant, where the main character is talking sincerely and soothingly ... to a doorknob.

>> Also, all my characters have to have at least one thing in common with me, or else they never gain any depth, for some reason. Even villains.<<

Mine usually have something in common with me, for the connection. But that can be all kinds of different things, some quite obscure.

>>Oh, and he's intelligent. I daresay most of my characters are intelligent.<<

Now that I think of it, yeah, so are mine. I strongly favor smart characters, and plenty of mine are downright brilliant. Stupid is a villain trait for me. I do have one utterly, epically stupid character from the Whispering Sands. I also have a couple of favorable characters who are mentally slow but have other commendable traits, one in Waterjewel and then Ularki in Torn World. Mostly I can't abide stupid people, so I don't enjoy reading or writing about them under most circumstances.