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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

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

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.