The manifold blessings of having at least one publishing nemesis

Q and A edition: please know that any grump you detect in my replies to your perfectly valid and excellent questions has been triggered not by you but by [gestures out the window].

"Is it bad if ________?": on "good" vs. "bad" advances, sales, editorial responses, and other publishing career developments inviting interpretation

The transformative question not enough authors ask themselves: "What *didn't* happen to me?"

Rise to fall. Rise again. Rise anyway.

The most important thing to keep in mind as you navigate the publishing industry is that you're going to die and are in fact sweeping closer to the moment of your death with every passing nanosecond

"Am I struggling with this book project because books are hard to write, or am I struggling because it's the wrong book for me?"