“A big hello from California!! And, when in doubt, self-publish, thank you smashwords.com!!!”

“Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.”

“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don’t wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.”

“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.”

“I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge or emotions that you want to express. Whenpeople read a book—particularly a self-published one—they have the right to expect that it’s the person’s writing, not cleaned-up dictation or slapping a name on a book that someone else wrote.”

“A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot.”