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

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.

You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie.

There is no equality without coercion.

I just don’t see the point of talking unless there’s something to say.

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.