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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.

Publishing is not my world.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.