A big hello from California!! And, when in doubt, self-publish, thank you smashwords.com!!!
Facebook should start publishing breakup stories. 'So and so and so and so are no longer in a relationship.' With a tombstone next to it.
Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
