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.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.

I’ve been willing to go for years without publishing. That’s been my career.

Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.

I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it’s ready for the world, you have to relinquish that control and let nature take its course. A few will be impressed by...

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I’m just delighted they’re reading them at all!

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we do not trust the truth because it is free. Perhaps because many are...

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Content is King. Promotion is Queen

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

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball...

Books are like horcruxes–without all the evil–because a piece of the author goes into each one.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or...

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

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...

You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you’ve done is talk about writing a book. An idea for a book is not a book; it is a...

For a writer it’s a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what’s available and who gets to read it.

and I vowed that someday, some way, I would do something about this ignorant insult.

‎”It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life.” – on writing

There are three certainties in a writer’s life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

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.

Outside the box” and look what is actually in the box first. You jump around from marketing gimmick to marketing gimmick without a clear plan or goal, hoping to reproduce someone else’s success without understanding...

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I’ve discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of...

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up...

Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We’re sorry, but no… and then more beautiful things. It’s a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.I read it out loud to the kids. I stick...

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until,...

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...

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

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...

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?

Persistence can look a lot like stupid.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there’s no other motive except the even baser one of making money….

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

An author’s strong belief and enthusiasm will affect the writing of the book and often the publisher’s commitment to it.

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our...

It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or none and are inclined to go along with the author’s script almost without...

There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.