Oh, and another thing

By the way, I have developed an almost rabid hatred of unpublished writers who like to share their magical method for writing boffo books. Uhm, if your method is so great how come you're unpublished? Have you ever thought that maybe you don't know so much after all and that you should spend more time figuring out to write and less time telling everyone how good your books are?

And you know what else I hate? I hate writers who think Print On Demand (POD) publishing makes them an author. No. It made you a someone who wrote a check and didn't learn a damn thing about how hard it is to write a book a real publisher will pay for.

Writers who think they're fabulous typically aren't.