{"id":3810,"date":"2006-04-05T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2021-01-12T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T02:20:51","slug":"from-who-got-it-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"From , who got it from ."},"content":{"rendered":"

From this blog entry<\/a> by J. Steven York:<\/p>\n

“Rules da 8 – How Becoming Published Will Change Your Life<\/p>\n

Rule da 8: When you make your first sale, your problems are only beginning.<\/p>\n

Rule da 8.1: Publishers don’t buy books, they buy careers. If you aren’t thinking past your first book, you are of very little value to anyone. Pray the publisher forgets to ask.<\/p>\n

Rule da 8.2: Wash, rinse, repeat. Repeating is the hard part.<\/p>\n

Rule da 8.3: The only time a second book can be easier than the first book is when the second book is already written, and even there lie pitfalls.<\/p>\n

Rule da 8.4: You can’t rest on your laurels unless you have some, and even then, laurels don’t pay the electric bill.<\/p>\n

Rule da 8.5: Sharks gotta swim, writers gotta write. Sharks stop swimming, they die. What does this tell you about writers?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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