So, my fourth book, THE NOVA INCIDENT, comes out in four months and I'm very excited. As always, I'd be delighted if you'd preorder it; it means a lot! dmoren.com/the-nova-incid…
Especially since once it comes out, I will—once again—have no more books under contract. A short 🧵:
You might think that at this point, four books in, the process is pretty cut and dried for me: I write a book and bam, it gets published.
This is very much not the case.
Aug 6, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Look: you won't find a stronger advocate *against* encryption backdoors than me. (Go ahead, look it up: everything I've written is pretty easy to find.) But it's disingenuous to act as though a society with 100% privacy doesn't have *any* downside to it.
We do a disservice to ourselves and to the idea of privacy when a complex, considered attempt to deal with a specific problem comes along and the knee-jerk reaction is to dismiss it out of hand because it does not meet some impossible, mythical standard.
Apr 22, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
So, I've been promoting my upcoming book a lot. It's not something I'm great at, and—all things being equal—I'd prefer to kick back and let someone else handle it, but I'll tell you why I do it, which just happens to be the most important thing I've learned about being an author.
You ready? Here goes:
Nobody will ever love your book as much as you.
There. That's it. That's the tweet.
Nov 27, 2019 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
As promised, here's my thread on how the prequels could have kept the secret that Vader was Luke's father. Buckle in, because it's going to be a long one.
So, a little backstory: years and years ago, borne out of my disappointment in the prequels and my love of the Star Wars radio dramas, I thought it would be super cool to do radio dramas of the way the prequels SHOULD have gone—my plan was three series of six half-hour episodes.
