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

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.

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

​Let the lotus of your character be full-blown and the results will follow.

Nature was beautiful in a way he'd never imagined, but this...this was life.

The white race will either inhabit planet earth in totality, or it will not survive at all. There will be no in between in our future.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.