My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.

Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary.

My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.

There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.