The most valuable thing you can collect if you are selling your book from a website when a visitor comes to your book's sales site is not their money

The benefits of building an audio book library are very similar to those of building one for printed books A library as defined by wikipedia is "a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual

Most people in the writing world talk about the three levels of rejection--form, personal, rewrite--but I've discovered seven types (after over 200 rejections before being published and about hundred after, I should know) Learning how to analyze rejection is a helpful skill for any writer because you'll learn what to ignore, what to consider, and what will put you on the right track or, as the case may be, off of it

When I finished my book, "The Plain Truth about Living in Mexico," I sent queries to a number of publishers On a lark, I queried McGraw-Hill

Years ago when Napoleon Hill's famous manuscript on building wealth was ready for publication, it had no title His publisher called and said, "If you don't come up with a title by tomorrow morning, I'm going call it "USE YOUR NOODLE AND MAKE A BOODLE

When Warner Books, one of the world's largest publishing companies, published my first book, The Angry Clam, back in 1998, the most common question I was asked was, "What were you smoking when you wrote this book" This was quickly followed by the second most common question, "How in the world did a 40-page, hand-written book with bad drawings of a clam get published