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As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

I write the books to amuse myself.

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.