Goodreads asked Donald L. Hicks:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Donald L. Hicks Twenty-five years ago when I first started writing, self-publishing was essentially non-existent unless a person was willing to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to see their book in print. Traditional publishers only published 4 books out of every 1000 submissions (.04% of received manuscripts). But fortunately, thanks to the electronic age, the whole publishing industry is much easier to break into. You can now have a book self-published for next to nothing. There's little reason not to write.

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