Book store Quote by Peter Prasad

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

— Stuart Montgomery

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

“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

“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

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel…

— Caroline Leavitt

An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you…

— Ravi Subramanian

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by…

— Charles Stross

I've felt pressure to produce long fiction for as long as I've been writing fiction. There's just an incredible bias in the publishing industry…

— Steve Almond

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly…

— Bill Gates

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go…

— W. P. Kinsella

I think where genre is limiting is that in the marketplace, you have to put things in a box to create expectations to make…

— Robert Eggers