"Congrats, sweetheart! There's almost no better feeling in the world than holding the book for the first time! and it never gets old, no matter how many times it happens."

"Brooke, interesting that you should be writing about collaboration since that's the subject of the talk we're giving for the Laguna Beach branch of Pen Women this Friday. We not only write together, we belong to a writing group that works…"

"How right you are! finding the right publisher can be grueling. But once you've found them, it is a joy."

"Sandra,I'm afraid you may be right, and it's lead to some really bad writing. Thanks for the reference."

"One of my pet peeves is statements punctuated with question marks. e.g.: He wondered why she didn't smile? HUH? It's a STATEMENT, not a question. It's being done very often, and it always annoys me!"

"I totally agree with you, Zetta. (Sorry, Jim.) In normal speech, we often start sentences with conjunctions and often use sentence fragments. It's often necessary to use both to maintain a character's rhythm. However, confusing preposition…"

"Yep, Brookie, I've know  you since you were a very little girl. And I'm so proud of you! I was aware of the mergers and the Penguin acquisition. We were happy with iUniverse both times we used them, but I heard varying opinions of…"

"Brooke, I have heard it described a bit differently. There is self-publishing which is truly vanity publishing. Lulu, Createspace, Smashwords are a few of those. Generally they don't offer many, if any any services, and the quality of the…"