Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.
I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.
Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.