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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.
I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.