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.

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

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

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.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

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

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