Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I used to write Lonely Planet guidebooks to Latin America. Now I write mostly science fiction, but occasionally hardboiled noir, sometimes satire.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
DREAMS MUST DIE is a postapocalyptic dystopia in which everyone is a given brain implant at birth that connects them by direct thought to every human being on the planet.
Trust me. That would be bad.
I’m a member of the Lifeboat Foundation’s Advisory Board, a distributed think tank dedicated to preventing human extinction.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to get up, take a shower, drink a cup of coffee, then kill a chicken with a rusty carving knife and fling blood around the room to get into the mood. Sometimes, if I get stuck, I rip out its viscera with my teeth and study it for clues.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Cory Doctorow. Roger Smith. George Orwell. Oswald Spengler. Oh so many more.
What are you working on now?
Cleaning up all that chicken blood before my wife gets home. Yikes!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Attacking passersby in the street and shoving a free ebook down the front of their pants.
The invisible nature of the ebook tends to confuse them a bit, I find.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Sell insurance instead.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Eat your vegetables.
What are you reading now?
The words “What are you reading now?”
What’s next for you as a writer?
Death?
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
David Mamet’s “Three Uses of the Knife.”
Shakespeare’s Collected Works.
“How to Build a Raft”
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