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

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

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.

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

My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.