Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

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

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.