An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

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.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.