If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.

Before you make the key, study the lock.

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.