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.

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.

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/dmoren/status/1199536608443273216

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.