Enjoy the view when you have a chance. I am almost always the one driving, mostly because I actually like the process of operating a motor vehicle. It's one of the reasons why, despite most vehicles in One Day Lucky being capable of driving autonomously, there are still cars and motorcycles that people operate manually. But recently, I've been in the passenger seat a few times, passing through some of the areas from the story and just enjoying the view. Which has been how the publication...

When does someone transition from writer to author? One Day Lucky is now available from all of the major booksellers in both paperback and ebook formats. This feels like a milestone, even if all of the work that I would have previously associated with writing a novel (like actually writing) was done a long time ago. I am not sure if this is the moment that allows me to transition from writer to author, though. I have a published book, the novella, and author pages on most of the big sites...

Navigating an increasingly artificial world Writing sometimes feels like it's 90% reading. You read to keep current in your genre, you read outside your genre to experience different ways of telling stories, and then you read and re-read your own work in multiple rounds of editing. Reading in-genre has been the hardest for me. I've already read all the big ones. All the Gibson and Stephenson, and all the newer entries like Napper as well. There just aren't that many cyberpunk books available...