The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

For some people, their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed, so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.

The pressure never lets up. Doesn't matter what you did yesterday. . . Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.