Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.

I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.

My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.