How to Succeed as a Writer

Howard Kurtz: I had a very hard time. Well I got a couple of personal setbacks. It's my older brother and it was one of those things where I had to sell short stories before I could tackle the novel market. For me the worst time was after writing my 12th unpublished novel and getting in a heap of rejection letters off of books that I thought were quite good. The first time I was really discouraged was when I looked at the royalty agreement with Steve Jackson Games before I decided self-publish. And then we knuckled down and we did it and you know now I've got six books in print all of which are doing a great job at feeding the family