Novelists have a choice: stay in and write or get out and promote. Or, with the internets, they can spend a bit of their spare time between deadline crunches a

Novelists have a choice: stay in and write or get out and promote. Or, with the internets, they can spend a bit of their spare time between deadline crunches and occasional promo trips blogging, tweeting, and answering fan email and blog comments. Or even podcasting or commenting on HN (cstross, e.g.).