Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

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

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

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

I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.