Recently, I was chatting with a new friend on Twitter who got “stuffed” by the same publisher that my dear friend Angelique got tangled up with a year ago. Their stories are the same. The publisher’s name doesn’t matter …it’s a vanity publisher, and they all work the same: you pay a lot of money … read more The Perils of Vanity Publishing
Book readers are awesome people! They give writers a reason to live and dream. Without readers, writers are nothing. “I just saw a person reading my favorite book…It’s like a book recommending a person.”
Want to know the secret of writing a bestseller? Okay, listen up…great advice! “You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writing. Stop wishing you were writing. And you write.”
A few words of writing inspiration from the scenic Central Coast of California as the first evening that feels like fall settles in. The immortal Robert Frost reminds us: “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” —Robert Frost
If you’re one of the countless writers who wonder why you keep writing, and you worry that no one will ever buy or read what you write, just remember: You are doing what every writer must do: WRITE and CREATE. “The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
I love this quote, and it’s a challenge to every writer. It also reminds us that every writer is a reader, and every reader is a budding writer. “If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, you must write it.” —Toni Morrison
Here’s a great definition of “a writer” I found in my online wanderings: “An over-caffeinated masochist with the insane compulsion to bare their soul on paper, cry over their keyboard and bang their head against the literary wall waiting for someone to love their work.” Ha, sounds lke every writer I know, including me!