
What Not to Do When You Hold The First Copy of Your First Book in Your Hands
NOTHING ILLEGAL. Seriously. I cannot think of one single legal thing you should not do when you hold that very first brand spanking new copy of your very first,

NOTHING ILLEGAL. Seriously. I cannot think of one single legal thing you should not do when you hold that very first brand spanking new copy of your very first,
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart The holidays are over.
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” – Henry David Thoreau in a letter to Harrison Blake, November 16,
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” ~ T. S. Eliot It’s official! This morning I signed a contract with Mango Publishing
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford Some days
“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” – Thomas Carlyle What if agents don’t want my book? What if small
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people
“Success rests in having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be.” – George Sheehan I recently discovered
“All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary—it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.” – Somerset Maugham Shortly before Ed
“Just exactly what is a wolf doing in my parlor?” Science journalist Jon Franklin spends nine interesting CDs (I listened to the audiobook) answering this question in the frame of