From the article….

A lot of writers are worried about online piracy, but Stackpole dismissed those concerns. “People downloading my stories from the big torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It’s no money out of my pocket.” He even admitted to downloading some of his own books from bittorrent sites if he didn’t already have a digital copy, saying it was far easier than scanning it in himself.

I haven’t ever read any of his books, but I did happen to go to a panel at the miscon convention where he said, “Here’s one thing that a lot of writers who aren’t as good do…’  I suppose when you have somewhere around thirty published novels you can afford to make pompous statements like that.

To be fair, he did follow it up with good advice about escalating your plot in a believable way.

Here is the article.  It’s about building a group of followers online so you have an audience once you start getting books published.

The Best Way To Break Into Science Fiction Writing Is Online Publishing

Michael Stackpole is the author of many Starwars and Battletech books as well a a number of other science fiction novels.