How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.
I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.
I spend about a year between novels.
Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.
Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.
Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.
Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.
Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
