By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.

Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don__ let stress steal your joy.

...the concept of marketing is almost as old as humanity itself...suffice it to say here that it took almost no time for a wily serpent to sell Adam and Eve on a shiny apple from the Tree of Knowledge, at which point they became not only the first humans but also the first marketing demographic, and God expelled them from the Garden of Eden for being total consumerist dupes. (p. 40)

There is a cookie trail of all my interests lodged in some digital sphere which will one day consolidate the collected data of six billion souls and vomit out__ don__ know__ersonalized infomercials for deodorant and car wax.

Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.

If I could be anything in this world I would be rare. So rare that the people I loved never forgot me or ever found anything to compare me to. I was never a type, but the only type--the person you couldn't throw away because you would never be able to describe the mystery of something that didn't fit this world.