Girls, we’re fiction editors–we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he’ll never forget.

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

Very much on the defensive, I admitted that I liked to read.”Sure,” Sammy said, “I never said I had anything against reading books…””The publishers will be relieved to know that,” I tried to insert, but...

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...

But if I worried too much about publishers’ expectations, I’d probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

Excerpt from Ursula K Le Guin’s speech at National Book AwardsHard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our...

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they’re attached to dollar signs – unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

News is not just about information from media, it’s the current revelation of the two changing worlds of the good and the dark worlds.

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.

I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those...

Your writing can be chosen by one publisher and hated by all readers, or it can be rejected by one publisher and loved by all readers. Most of the time it’s somewhere in between, but...

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like....

I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his...

I think it’s a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read ‘Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now’.

It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.

When I finally find that one willing agent, I’ll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.