I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

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

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.