Hi Gail! I was wondering how you go about choosing the questions you answer on here. Do you have a system or just answer as they come to you?

I get hundreds of questions a week and can’t possibly answer them all, so I have to pick pretty carefully.

If it’s a question I have answered many times, I probably have to ignore those. If it’s a long, long, long answer, I probably can only do a couple such answers a week. Some are a little passive aggressive, I don’t respond well to those.

A surprising number of questions are about things I know nothing about, books I don’t work on, sometimes even from companies I don’t work on. Generally, I leave those alone.

I try to pick questions to answer where more than just the asker might like to see the answer. There are tens of thousands of readers on my Tumblr, I am trying not to clog up their feed with archaic answers only a couple people care about.