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

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

We are, after all, homo economicus.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .