Author-life Quote by Michelle M. Pillow

“Indie publishing is a get-rich-slow scheme.”

— Stuart Montgomery

“If you want to succeed in indie publishing, be prepared to work your ass off and demonstrate patience.”

— Sean Platt

“All indies self-publish but not all self-publishers are indie.”

— Orna Ross

“If you want to succeed in indie publishing, be prepared to work your ass off and demonstrate patience. Writers who aren’t willing to do…

— Sean Platt

“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and…

— Sara Sheridan

“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.”

— Ryan Lilly

“I don’t want to be one of those writers a publisher will publish just to make a buck. I want to be a writer…

— Steven Lloyd

“Being an indie author is just like being a fish in the ocean and waiting for a reader to sail with their boat and…

— Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

“Books have a publishing standard, and every Indie Author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded.”

— Eeva Lancaster

“(You wouldn’t be reading this book if I hadn’t convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.)”

— Susan Cain

“Authors today need a publisher as much as they need a tapeworm in their guts.”

— Rayne Hall

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker