How to Write a Novel

Larry Correia has a post discussing first person versus third person, and the penultimate paragraph is:

I want to be Dan Simmons when I grow up, but then again, I did just sell a book featuring a teleporting magic ninja fight on top of a flaming pirate dirigible in a world with bear cavalry, gangsters, wizards, and John Browning fighting the magic samurai of Imperial Japan with Tesla super weapons, so I’m working on it.

How could you not want to go out and buy that?