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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two Avon books that I wrote at the start of my career. I paid to have these two books, 'Bold Conquest' and 'Wild Hearts,' scanned. When I got them back as documents, I had to clean them up and correct all the typos, etc.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.