Traditional Publishing Quotes

“I was once told by a traditional publisher I write and publish more books than they can handle so I became a publisher. - Kailin Gow on being prolific”
― Kailin Gow

“The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell

“If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house.”
― Victoria Lynn Schmidt, Book in a Month: The Fool-Proof System for Writing a Novel in 30 Days