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
I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.
I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.
Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.
People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.
The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.
Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo
As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker
I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker
If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.
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.
We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.
The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It's that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than 'quality' as criteria for what they choose.