If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.