1,001 Tips for Writers  

offers some of the best advice on writing and getting published today. The book is presented in the form of quotations and presents advice from a wide variety of books, magazines, newspapers, trade journals, speeches, articles on the Internet, and original gems from notable writers.

The book includes:

•  Advice on how to get commercially published
•  The factors involved in whether you should (or should not) self-publish
•  Why editors play such a vital role, and why even prize-winning authors need one
•  Tips on coping with rejection, and the inspirational success storiesof writers who  struggled for years
•  The habits that separate professional writers from the amateurs
•  Why you want to create controversy (yeah, some of us are real troublemakers!)
•  Advice on how to create a memorable characters
•  Advice on how to get rich in publishing (marry a publisher’sdaughter,  George Orwell said!), and
•  Why you cannot trust some writers. As author Susan Braudy put it, I hope not seriously: “I’m basically a treacherous person with no sense of loyalty. I’d write openly about my sainted mother’s sex life for art.”

For good measure I also included some pretty decent jokes and some facts of literary life that aspiring writers really should know.

My hope is that you will enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed creating it. This is a book I wish someone gave me when I began my career as a full-time author and publisher. If I had known 30 years ago what I know now, I could have spared myself a lot of time and heartbreak. This book should give writers, especially aspiring authors, a better head start.