If i see one more Facebook ad for a 'how to' book on writing novels, I gonna hurl. I know there are some valuable books on the topic written by accomplished authors in years past and I've read some of them with good results. But here I'm talking about those "How to write a novel in 90 days and sell 10,000 copies in a month" kind of books, the ones that are invariably less than 100 pages long and written by a twenty-something who no one has ever heard of. We all know the odds stacked against a debut novel. I'd be willing to bet that the crappy how-to books sell as well as, probably better than, most first novels, especially the independently published ones. That makes me sad.