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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.