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

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.

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.

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 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.

The power of the mind is the strength of being.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.

I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job.

We share a culture focused on our clients.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.