I think a lot of e-readers are great, I have tried Nook, Kindle, Play Books and variations of ported readers for Android, iPad and iPhone. The Android readers are the most convenient for my pocket device and busy lifestyle. I tend to favor the Kindle for Android.

We've gotten a lot of new readers from announcements we've made through Twitter. We've found and followed a lot of reasonably well-known "indie authors" who have been gracious enough to follow-back and then re-tweet our announcements, which we make no more than once a day. I think that being part of the community and offering feedback to submitters, offering advice in our WordPress blog and taking the time to read what other authors and magazines have to say has been a great way for us to network.

It's a kitchen table. Really. I have a large monitor and a old tower sitting on the floor. When we have company, the monitor goes on the floor (like it was bad, facing the wall in shame) and then the side has a bookshelf, teetering printer and there are shipping supplies everywhere. It's a pit. Very well-organized pit.

I grew up in Illinois and Wisconsin. It did not do much to influence my writing and here's why: no one around me wrote. I was an only child of a single mom who was a loner. This produced a lot of imagination and playtime in either the attic, the basement or the laundry bin. Which ever I was comfortable with that day.

I first wrote a piece at age 7. It was a prose bit describing a pet that had just died. I was stunned that I could not make the written grammar match what I wanted to say. "Donchya" came out "Don't you" etc. My mother insisted that I be correct in writing and it had the unintended effect of improving my speech. It took a long time before I was comfortable writing with a hint of slang like that. I don't stress about it. I am a writer, not a director, so it's not up to me to say, "again, but with a deeper accent."

Artificial Intelligence and its effects on the socialization of the individual using it. Deep stuff. And monsters. There have to be monsters, of course.

I thought everyone was an indie author?

Clearest path to the finish line I have seen in any tools that i have tried. And they are platform-independent AND care about distribution.

Clarifying my imagination. Really. It's the only reason I do it. If I cannot express sufficiently what is going on in my mind then I get all twiddly.

Co-conspirators in the art of imagining. They make me a better writer.

The mortgage. Actually it's the desire to be involved in everything I love. Family, friends, pets, hobbies, writing, reading, organizing, editing, publishing, eating, etc. I have so much to do and only the rest of one life to do it. I honestly don't know how I will get it all done.

Besides friends and family and day job? Writing about writing. Reading. Writing about reading. Reading about writing. Are you sensing the pattern?

I have subscriptions to periodicals. I have newsletters. I search online for recommendations. I have authors I pursue. I get stuff sent to me through reviewer programs.