I try to make the cover reflect something about the story while at the same time being eye-catching without being garish.

iPad/iPhone

Blogging. I just make posts to my blog, which draws people to the site, from the site they find my writing. Word of mouth is even better.

I don't have one.

I'm an Army brat, though I didn't travel a lot. I lived in Arkansas, where I was born, until my dad joined the Army when I was 5 or 6, then I lived in Texas, then on Oahu, then Texas again, then Georgia. After that I've lived in a Arkansas and Tennessee, and now I'm back in Georgia.

I can't be sure how much it has had any influence on my writing except, possibly, to say that living in Hawaii probably was very good for leaving me with a very open mind about people and ideas. And the part of Arkansas I'm from is one where, generally, folk don't much care what you do so long as you're good people -- your church, politics, and so forth don't mean as much as what kind of person you present to the world around you and how you treat people. That comes through in my characters.

Still, far more important to what and how I write is what I've read.

I took a good look at the SF publishing industry as a whole and decided I wanted absolutely nothing to do with their suicidal lunacy.

Not very polite or necessarily very professional an answer, I know, but it's true. I don't think very highly of the agents, publishers, methods, and pay in traditional-publishing where SF is concerned.

The simple joy of discovery.

I love learning about the characters and I love seeing what they get themselves into and how they get themselves out of it. I love discovering the worlds they live in and the people they meet.

Playing with a dog and three cats.

Random chance, mostly.

Grab a pen, grab some paper, tell story, type story, edit and revise, publish.

Has worked very well for me so far.