300 drafts, seven years, and plenty of crying, apparently.
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Quote: Anne Rice
Anne Rice is author of 27 books and best known for her Vampire Chronicles series which began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976.
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With just 42 books of plays and poetry, William Shakespeare tops the list of best-selling fiction authors with estimated sales[…]
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I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgement[…]
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According to Groucho Marx, “Time flies like the wind, but fruit flies like bananas.” Marx was a master of paraprosdokian;[…]
Read moreHow to Beat “Synopsis Horror” and Quickly Summarise Your Book
How do you summarise your book in a couple of sentences? Impossible, right? You’ve written sixty-, seventy-, eighty-thousand words or[…]
Read moreA Short List of Short Novels
According to Dean Wesley Smith, the 80,000 word (or longer) novel was an invention of Big Publishing. A typical novel[…]
Read moreQuote: Isaac Asimov
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov As a kid, Asimov got his start reading science[…]
Read moreDolly Parton’s indie deal
Despite her public persona, Dolly Parton is a savvy business-person, which probably explains a music career that’s now well into its sixth decade.
Read moreCross-eyed bears and friendly ants
My late mother thought Gladly was rather a nice name for a bear, but as a child she could never[…]
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