now-person” and do it now!

Yeah, now we publish whenever we feel like it.

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren’t made aware of them!” ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you.

Write what you know best. If you can’t survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won’t survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson.” Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications.

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit.” Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning...

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to...

On having a backup plan: “Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream – I love writing, acting, and psychiatry – there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my...

Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it’s...

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you to cultivate a forest! You don’t evangelize to a crowd when God called...

A lot of people who read my novel ‘Smog City’ ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it’s because I’ve given them life. Not literally of...