You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.