If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.