Like many writers, I feel a special surge of affection for readers who want to get my latest book but query, “What way is best for you? Do you make more money if I get it the e-book, or if I pick it up at the store?” That is precious. Really. The gesture is appreciated. […]
If someone tells you online or in person that he’s just read a book by a given writer and pronounces it superior, you cannot win an argument about the quality of the writer by declaring that you gave up reading that writer’s works twenty years ago, and especially not if you hated one book that […]
Among the many monstrously anti-literate things said to me by folks who saw me reading books, statements to the effect that people who read books don’t have lives, that reading is for fags, that I was a Poindexter or a nerd or so on, the conversations that have long horrified me most are those with […]