Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

You mean he thinks I'm going to get MORE offers?" Kim said, appalled. "He doesn't seem to be the only one that thinks so." Mairelon said. "Aunt Agatha mentioned it to me yesterday afternoon. Is there anyone, or would you rather I turn the lot of them away?" Kim shook her head. "There isn't anyone." Except you.

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.