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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.