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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to...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

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you’re just ready to get that baby out!

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller...

It was only after two years’ work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a...

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

I’ve always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

You can’t judge a book by it’s cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.

If the novel is dead, I’m a necrophiliac.

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks….

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken.

But just understand the difference between a man like Reardon and a man like me. He is the old type of unpractical artist; I am the literary man of 1882. He won’t make concessions, or...

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It’s not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

I’m a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you’re good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he’s not important anymore, and the Internet...

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading...

Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream.

you may be right. But, no. It would seem as if I were lending support to what ought never to have been published in the first place.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Some writers aren’t writers, they are mere escapees’ and refugees’ on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Only a few short years ago, the average stay-at-home mom spent her relaxation time reading Jackie Collins and staring at the pool boy. Now, half of them are outselling Jackie Collins writing porn about the...

By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

I have my own publishing company called ‘I Am McLovin Publishing.’

Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you’ll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other’s work as...

It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It happened when publishers and editors cut back on their drinking. If there is...

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

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...

It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.

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.

Every time you publish a book, be prepared to eat a fresh slice of humble pie.