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

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

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

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.

Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.