More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.

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

Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.

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

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.