46 M. J. Rose Quotes for You to Enjoy

M. J. Rose

American Author

About Book Books Writing You Your

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

If your mom is still around, you're so lucky. M. J. Rose

Mom You Around Still Your Lucky

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries. M. J. Rose

Sad Musicians Sometimes Dreamers Wine Long Mysteries Walks Sweet Think Melancholy City Seductive Enticing Paris Writers Smells She Always Yes Curious Just Artists Senses Lovers Fantasies

Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners. M. J. Rose

I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with. M. J. Rose

Day Mom Mother Thanks Relentless Would Would-Be More Absence Feel Miss Deal Always Commercialization Just Just One Even Harder Her

A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off. M. J. Rose

You Reading Thriller Mystery Know Because How Off Did Suspense Behind Want Happened Who Keep Pulled

When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing. M. J. Rose

You Facebook Writing Coffee Email Pencils Out Characters Dream Stay Brutal Writers Sharpen Check Over Heads Make Read Still Up Get Stop Fictive Procrastinate Page Your Zip

It's so easy to look foolish online. M. J. Rose

Easy Online Foolish Look

Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books. M. J. Rose

Wind Too Spend Books Marketing More Instead Budget Trailer Up Trailers Than Authors Far Your Many

Don't add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don't put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up. M. J. Rose

I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again. M. J. Rose

I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives. M. J. Rose

Memory People Past State Tools Phrase Hypnosis Access Always Where Them Might Created Help Found Lives Meditate

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine. M. J. Rose

Book Shine Club Book Club Books Marketers Out About Something Write Excited Leaders Readers Makes Get Them Stand Need

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book. M. J. Rose

Buy Sports Book Car Wine Thomas Bottle Advance Investing Instead Yard Diamonds Antique Cellar Use Your Jefferson

Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller. M. J. Rose

Time Other Type Thriller Thrillers Like Wrote She Vera Female Male Author Any Psycho Specialty Specific Her

I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion. M. J. Rose

Life Best World Passion My Life Think All My Life City Gusto About Write New Up Fervor York New York Grew Lived Here

I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries. M. J. Rose

The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing. M. J. Rose

Success Book People Will Find Rests Ultimately Whether Appealing

You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify. M. J. Rose

Best You Book Enough Strive Something Write Writers Most Identify Always Editors Still Might Agents Appeal Even

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat. M. J. Rose

You Book Power Embrace Truly Author Create Choice Yours

Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you. M. J. Rose

Day You Three Spend Bookstore Willing Wearing Chase Week Chat Idea Days Hours Talk Least Five Front Anyone While Board Sandwich Your Who Here Two

One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds. M. J. Rose

People World Right People Feeds Heard Notice Tweet Round Right

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