Hook your editor with a strong opening sentence to bring attention to your writing.

No book or magazine article is for "everyone" so know your audience, then target them with your writing.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

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

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we do not trust the truth because it is free.

Perhaps because many are idealists and publishing is so frustrating, writers are particularly vulnerable to believing in those who offer hope in exchange for cash. Writers know life is tough and we all want to think of an easier way. Maybe for a rare few, there is. If you count on that, you are a chump and somebody is going to take your money and break your heart.