Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.