Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.