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

Stop aspiring. Start doing.

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.

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

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

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.

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.