I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do."

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.

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.

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

Stopbreaking yourself into piecesto make yourself fit.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.