I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Publish
Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We're sorry, but no... and then more beautiful things. It's a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.I read it out loud to the kids. I s...
As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.
Content is King. Promotion is Queen
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.
Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.
When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become , tha...
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.
Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.