Questions Authors Get Asked: “Aren’t Writers in Competition?”

Like most authors I get asked a lot of questions, not just about my stories and characters but also more generally about the writing life.

And some folk out there have noticed that I don’t just talk about my own books and writing on the blog, but also about other writers, as well as doing interviews with fellow authors, book reports on books I’m reading and enjoying, and being a member of communities such as the Tuesday Poets and SpecFicNZ.

So the question I get asked is: “why do you do that, b...