The only time I’ve ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel,...

All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but...

In order to be heard, an author must have readers…

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”(on Ernest Hemingway

For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s going to satisfy the judge.

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

This book is shit and don’t read it” if they want. If they want to write a review entirely about how much they hate the cover, they can if they want. If they want to...

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person’s...

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always...

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.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn’t sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn’t the point.

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type.

Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers – thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can’t, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. – Tracy Kauffman