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"I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets."
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"The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are."
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"I should have my own publishing companies."
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"Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000."
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"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."
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"The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity."
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"The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor."
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"The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised."
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"The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers."
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"I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online."
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"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher."
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"One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked."
Language
"Biblical names are hot again."
Name
"I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love."
Love
"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."
Research
"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
Hollywood
"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."
Bible
"My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding."
Wedding
"My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12."
Family
"The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches."
People
"The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart."
Family
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