This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.
I've never written a book before.
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.