It wouldn’t happen… There hasn’t been one publication by a monkey

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

I’m afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they’ll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we’ve promised.

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to...

The ultimate message of this book, though, is not that should strive for publication, but that you should become devoted to the craft of writing, for its own sake. Ask yourself what you would do...

You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell you really don’t want to cry. As a tear falls between by breasts,...

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did’st by my side remain,Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true,Who thee abroad exposed to public view,Made thee in...

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish...

Happy 3rd anniversary Navigating Life’s Roadways!This book is a charge and blessing from above. Writing it has been on my radar for a while.