Nice reflection on the power the internet has given to individual authors: “Back then being an author felt very much like being an awkward teenager hoping to get a date: all an author could do was stay near the phone waiting for the publicist to call. But now, with the Internet, I feel completely empowered. I don’t need to wait for my publisher to do something on my behalf; instead, I just need to sit down at my laptop, do a bit of online research, and from there I can do any number of promotional things for my book.”