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.

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.

If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

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

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

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

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