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

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.

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.

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

My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.

Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.