I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.

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?

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet.

We are, after all, homo economicus.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

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