M. J. Rose Quotes

Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, copy editing and cover design. After which, you pick your way through the minefield of conforming to the differing requirements of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords, or hire someone to do it for you.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

I should have my own publishing companies.

Making a book is such a big enterprise.

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

YouTube is so quick and so instant, and you make a video, and you can upload it the same day, whereas with a book, you have to go through a lot of time and a lot of people and a lot of processes. So it was weird to sit down and work with other people on projects, because I'm so independent with YouTube.

Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait.

One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

I think most new writers are better off going with traditional publishers who will actually, at a minimum, edit your work, package it well, and market it for you.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.