Michael A. Stackpole
Michael A. Stackpole
Michael Austin Stackpoleis an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont. From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles with limited distribution within the industry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 November 1957
CountryUnited States of America
Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.
Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.
Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.
Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.
If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.
In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.
Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.
If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.
Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs." -Jaina Solo
I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker
As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker
Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo
Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.