RBN: Looking back a bit as the mass market paperback of "The Mirrored Heavens" is about to hit stores, how has this ride been as a first time author?

DW: It's been quite a ride, and it's an incredible experience to have people you've never met reading your stuff and emailing you out of the blue. But you can't lose sight of the larger picture. Two years ago the goal was Getting Published; now the goal is Taking This To the Next Level. The Autumn Rain trilogy was always aimed at world domination, and these days all my efforts are focused on ensuring that all the cool kids succumb. : )

RBN: For readers not already familiar with your first book can you set the stage a bit?

DW: No problem: 22nd century espionage; no one trusts anybody; agents have their memories rewritten on a routine basis. Think Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets James Bond with spaceplanes and powered armor.

RBN: I'm not sure many people know the difference between something like a trade paperback which is how The Mirrored Heavens was originally released and a mass market paperback. How do the versions differ?

DW: Not by much. Trade paperback is just a larger, glossier type of paperback; mass-market is the type one tends to see the most of--and in airports/drug stores/etc., that's all you're gonna see. Trade paperbacks have been around for a long while, but increasingly, they're being seen as the "new hardbacks"; publishers often release a limited run in trade paperback and then a more extensive run in mass-market. So it's yet another fiendish plan to sell more books . .. .

RBN: There are some extras in the mass market paperback. What are they?

DW: Well, you've got a map and a glossary, but the really cool stuff is the agent dossiers. I've hacked into the Praetorian files to bring readers actual data on the book's characters. Hopefully it'll help in keeping everybody straight, but there's some clues and unresolved issues buried here and there as well for folks who *thought* they knew what was going on.

RBN: We are still a short while off from your sequel "The Burning Skies". What can you whet our appetites with?

DW: My personal guarantee: Burning Skies will feature the most insane space battle ever seen in science fiction. George Lucas and the rest of those punks are going to be wondering what hit them.

RBN: I hear you may be attending NYComicon. Are you looking forward to that?

DW: Absolutely, but my five-month old kitten, Spartacus, is chafing with frustration that he will be left behind, which is proving to be the source of no little tension round here. So if you see anything on my blog while I'm up in NYC that reads something like lkjaklsjdfklafjklafjklaskldf jakfjklasjklfakjljk3jrFUCKALLHUMANS, you know who to blame.

Thanks as always to Dave for giving us some of his time. For those of you yet to experience Dave's book which I tell potential fans is sort of like "Jason Bourne meets Iron Man" here's a chance to grab the paperback from Amazon.