No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

Biggest influence: my mother.

We are, after all, homo economicus.

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

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.

I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.