Oh, the places you’ll go without ever leaving home!

The perils of using real people as fictional characters.

From unexpected meetings to book that change our lives, E. J. Simon ponders the role chance—or fate—can play in our daily lives.

Dreams, travel, colorful friends … E. J. Simon considers where the ideas for his books come from.

We’ve come a long way since HAL turned homicidal in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” but where is AI headed from here?

Ten years ago, my premise — that Alex Nicholas had himself “copied” into an AI in the Cloud before he died — was called far-fetched by some reviewers. Not anymore.

Despite an author's assurances that certain characters are not a reflection of his own personality, they often are.

Many of my characters are loosely based on people I know, but I try not to be limited by reality.

When I’m writing, I’m not looking to find another way to divide us or to create more angst for myself than I already have.

I want to be James Bond, but I don’t want to be swimming with crocodiles or get dissected by Goldfinger and his industrial laser. I like going to bed early.

Being a writer is likely as close as I’ll to come to fully experiencing a different life—and maybe that’s just as well.

Changing the places where I write changes more than the scenery.