“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life… and that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan What are you willing to do to pursue your dream of becoming a published writer? It is the rule rather than the exception that most serious, aspiring writers write with the end goal being publication….
In part one I talked about rejection and the inevitability of it. Continuing on the same theme, please take a minute and cheer yourself up with some of the more famous literary rejections. These anecdotes always give me hope because they all have a common thread: every writer here persisted despite the rejections. Robert M Persig‘s Zen…
The Forbes list of the Highest-Paid Authors came out a few weeks ago. There were the usual suspects: Stephenie Meyer, JK Rowling, Dan Brown, Danielle Steele and Stephen King to name a few. All the heavy hitters in publishing were accounted for. What I did find surprising was the fact that James Patterson occupied the…