Stop aspiring. Start doing.

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.

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.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him

If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.

A believer covers up and give Naseehah, whereas an evil-doer exposes and humiliates.

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way.

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.