It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

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

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.