If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
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Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
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No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
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I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
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