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

Stop aspiring. Start doing.

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.

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

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

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