Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

You have to develop your whole game to completion.

Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.