The latest book in print as of this question - Thrall Kind - is a collection of poems addressing systems control, free will ethics, and some seriously black humor in places.I'm a procedural free will ethicist, considering informed contractual consent to be the sole mattering thing, so this tends to bleed over into poetry pretty easily.

Actually, I'm not particularly independent - VacHaus press handles my stuff - but until that's a multi-author establishment in areas other than technical editing, I'm here as an author first. Motivation towards writing more generally? I can't not write.

As I'm just starting up here, not at all - but I expect that to change rapidly. I'm seeing uploads viewed at 5-10 views per book or folio even before it hits the main market post-verification, so that's a decent sign. Publishing in other venues has served me well however - and Smashwords has a deeper reach, other than to Amazon, which I'm hoping gets automated soon.

Pattern construction. Kipling is a racist, imperialist arse, but his way with language got me started as a wee vac, and a splash of Gibson cemented my love of patterning.

Nifty folk, mostly - thanks for reading!

Aside from the usual technical writing, poetry continues apace.

Rudyard Kipling - though I have to declaim, "I'm so sorry the bugger's a racist imperialist," Any time I mention him. Patricia A. McKillip, William Gibson, David Weber: Each keeps me going in their own way.

Breakfast. Mmm, breakfast.

Painting and other forms of art, physical training, naminal (It's a word - check with Russel Hoban) wrangling, and cooking non-fatal meals.

My local library, my friends, random people I talk to - I've currently got a reading backlog of something like 1500 books which I'm plowing through at about 1000 a year, 2/3 of which are technical and don't require cover-to-cover.

Yup. Use of a cat as a murder weapon. I was a well balanced young vac.

Sit down. Write. If that fails, write something else.

I'm a professional artist and graphic designer with entirely too much print background. On my own covers, I am to break tradition a bit, but for other folks I'm fairly mainstream unless they have specific desires.

*shrugs*

You can find my recent work, whatever it is, over at http://wetdryvac.deviantart.com/ - with the cavaet that some of it may not be safe for work.

Rudyard Kipling: Stalky & Co. - My ideal language and flow of words.
Patricia A. McKillip: Alphabet of Thorne - Far and away my favorite approach to storytelling.
William Gibson: Fragments of a Hologram Rose - Clipping of language in Gibson's work fascinates me.
David Weber: The Honor of the Queen - Linguistically dry, but conceptually pretty bloody lovely - and opposes Kipling perfectly.
Emily Dickenson: Collected Works - Sometimes simplicity just works.

Oh gods, um... Right now it's a combination of Ursual Vernon's latest works and a full catalog re-read of David Weber. Next week I've got some Proust scheduled.

Asus Memo 7 treats me well, as does my Droid 4. Kindle paperwhite hurts less, but has less overall functionality. I'm really hoping for a eInk screen with some solid computing power behind it soon.

Word of mouth. That's all of you: If you like it? Share it.

Also, I'm reasonably civilized to people. I'm told that helps.

Not currently on fire. There's not enough room for that amidst all the other stuff.