Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go right for the iPad. They're not intimidated by it. They know what to do with it. They'll start searching around. And in a children's e-book, you can have links to kid-safe encyclopedia. So if they click on the lion, it takes them to Africa and tells them all about lions. So now, the e-book is educational.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.