Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.
We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at...
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read 'Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now'.
Excerpt from Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book AwardsHard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-s...