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

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!