I wonder if I should give one of them away free with each copy of MORTAL GHOST ...

Living in a space that no one watches too closely is one of the secret ways that people get to do excellent stuff.

Precisely! And that is one reason why I publish online: most people - including bloggers - think´ 'self-published crap' and pay little attention. Consequently I can do exactly what I like in my fiction - without worrying about sales, without worrying about an editorial stamp of approval.

Details create verisimilude, or the illusion of verisimiltude - in film as in fiction. Whether Gibson is right or wrong about this particular detail, he is undoubtedly right to be thinking about it. However, there is a tendency in some SF to sacrifice other literary qualities - style, psychological depth etc. - to world-building.

A step in the right direction ... thanks!

Now I finally realise what I've been doing wrong as an indie writer! I should have been publishing MORTAL GHOST on condoms, not a blog.

Manybooks is doing excellent work. And they featured my own YA fantasy novel MORTAL GHOST as June book-of-the month, since the site's guiding light, Matthew McClintock, is keen to add new writing as well as classics. Here's the link:

http://manybooks.net/titles/lowelother07mortal_ghost.html