If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

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

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.