One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.