If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

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.

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

I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.