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.

Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.

My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.

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

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

More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

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.

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

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

You cannot be happy if you constantly compete with others for public approval.

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

My prayer is to seek, find and serve God.

Basketballs dont hold grudges!

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.