A good book is not the same as a successful one.
I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
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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.
There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .
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.
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...
Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.
Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is one...
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...
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.
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.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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.
