"In order to win, you must expect to win." — Richard Bach

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.