The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.