That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.