1. I've made that mistake a few times - in the 80s when I began regularly selling to FGU; in 91, when I sold four stories to F&Sf; in 97, when the advance for Arrow Cutting and a package from the public service enabled me to quit my day job and write full-time. All of these successes, sadly, were ephemeral: FGU folded, I've never sold another story to F&Sf, and the only novel I've had published since Savage Gods was a tie-in in a series that also seems to have ended.
2. No. I'm crazy, but not that crazy. I would only consider it if I had enough money left over that I could publish books that I really wanted to see in print, regardless of profitability.
3. It would depend on my income, and the availability of healthcare for Elaine... but if I didn't have to worry about those, then either Oxford (lovely city, and convenient to Europe, with the only real problem being those appalling British winters), San Francisco, Toronto, or Seattle.
4. Teleportation. Can't you tell by the way I was so indecisive about question 3?
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2. No. I'm crazy, but not that crazy. I would only consider it if I had enough money left over that I could publish books that I really wanted to see in print, regardless of profitability.
3. It would depend on my income, and the availability of healthcare for Elaine... but if I didn't have to worry about those, then either Oxford (lovely city, and convenient to Europe, with the only real problem being those appalling British winters), San Francisco, Toronto, or Seattle.
4. Teleportation. Can't you tell by the way I was so indecisive about question 3?
5. Beatles. No contest.