I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.

Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.

My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.

More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.

My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.

My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

If you listen to music daily, you find strength of survival.

I took a road that wasn't the road, but it was something I chose and that's fine.

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

Will you return to your home if Prince Grotto's reign is ended?" "Yes. It is home." "Will you take me back as your gardener?

Each man believes only his experience.

Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible.