Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.

Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.

The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to at least learn to run a mimeograph, and you had to pay postage to distribute your deathless prose, people who didn't actually have much to say for themselves found other hobbies

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.