Dan Poynter Quotes
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If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
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Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.
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A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.
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Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.
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Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go right for the iPad. They're not intimidated by it. They know what to do with it. They'll start searching around. And in a children's e-book, you can have links to kid-safe encyclopedia. So if they click on the lion, it takes them to Africa and tells them all about lions. So now, the e-book is educational.
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If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.