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.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

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

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]