Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.