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For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

It takes a long time to publish a book.