Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.

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

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.

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