Sean Platt Quotes & Sayings

Thirty, forty miles?" "Well," said Lila, verbally pouting. "I guess we'd better settle in for a long trip." She pushed her body even harder against Raj, then glared at the side of her father's head. Lila and Trevor got along with Meyer, but they were still teenagers. Piper, recently a teen herself, tried to understand, but often there was no use. Somewhere around your twenty-second birthday, teenagers started sounding like melodramatic idiots no matter what you did. "That's another reason to get a hotel room," Piper said. "They might let planes fly again. We can take the Gulfstream. — Sean Platt

Don't let fear inside your house, Luca." He tapped the side of his head. "That's valuable real estate, and fear will try to squat without paying. — Sean Platt

Control or block?" Piper asked. — Sean Platt

But here's an ugly truth about typos and other small editing mistakes: They exist in traditional books, too. — Sean Platt

Meyer closed his eyes, obeying the summons. But this time, Divinity's presence was further away, not as intimate. — Sean Platt

Film producer Samuel Goldwyn said, "The harder I work, the luckier I get," and that is absolutely how we all feel about luck, publishing, and life in general. — Sean Platt

Day One, Morning The Dempsey Penthouse, New York On the morning the ships came, Meyer Dempsey found himself preoccupied with drugs, sex, and business. It would have been hard to believe that just six days later, only one of the three would seem to matter. "You're not listening to me, Heather," he said into the phone. "I'm going to be in LA from Friday to Tuesday. I've already booked time with the studio on Monday. The whole reason I'm coming early is - " Heather cut him off, probably to feed her need for a zinger more than a reply that couldn't wait. Heather was always "on," never really able to take a break and just be a person for once. It was one of the reasons they hadn't been able to stay married. It was like living with a jester. "Because you want to do the Walk — Sean Platt

It meant a lot of driving through nothingness, and sometimes all that prickled the radio dial were low-wattage religious broadcasts: preachers who thought the aliens were Jesus coming home, or that they carried the wrath of God in their round ships' bellies. — Sean Platt

Our first CTA is usually for another purchase: either the next book or a bundle of multiple books. After that we'll have a call to join our e-mail list in order to get upcoming books free or at a discount. We often follow with a third CTA that contains either a list of our other books or (preferably) a link to a web page with that list (seeing as we can update the webpage easily but don't want to update all of our books' CTAs). Somewhere in there we usually try adding a request for the reader to leave a review for the book they've just read. — Sean Platt

we're not going to tell you THE ONE AMAZING THING that makes a writer successful. There is no such thing, and if anyone offers to tell you about that one amazing thing - typically just before dropping a large price tag - you should run in the other direction. — Sean Platt

Take Daddy's hand. And Clara, to Lila's immense relief, merely walked alongside him without claiming his offer. — Sean Platt

Understand That Bad Reviews Are a Sign That You're Relevant The only way you could never get any negative reviews would be if you were so incredibly irrelevant that no one thought you were worth talking or thinking about. — Sean Platt

Indies are doing well because of their willingness to experiment, their willingness to share data and lessons with other writers, and their unflinching habit of placing the reader first. — Sean Platt

Lila sensed the cessation of motion more than she actually felt it. Being in the shuttle did something to her equilibrium - something about the sense of being high in the air in what looked like a bubble from the inside combined with a force that felt like an invisible seat belt. Her fear was making everything worse. — Sean Platt

If the world is dead, at least it took Applebee's with it. — Sean Platt

Did you see anything?" Piper asked. "Anything at all?" Trevor was slumped on the couch, his NexFlight game system's power cord creating a tripping hazard in the underground bunker. It was supposed to be plugged while charging, but the batteries had dwindled to useless over a month ago. There were vast stores in a cold cellar near the bedrooms, reserved for flashlights and lanterns in case of emergency. Meyer would have a fit if Trevor used them for games. But Meyer wouldn't throw a fit because he was gone. And, Piper felt more certain by the day, was never coming back. "I didn't look." Trevor's eyes never left the game. "You didn't look? Go look, Trevor." Trevor sighed and met Piper's — Sean Platt

Do you know what truly, honestly separates people who succeed from those who fail? It's simple: People who do the work succeed. People who don't fail. — Sean Platt

Money lost to piracy is almost a sensible marketing expense. The more people who are talking, the more people who will hear. Some may become buyers. — Sean Platt

How have those in power led armies to kill people they don't know for centuries, always at the risk of their lives? By telling them God wants them to do it. By telling them that the country is depending on them. — Sean Platt

The reward of being able to tell stories every day is worth the effort required to make it happen, no matter how long it takes. — Sean Platt

People will buy bogus quick-fix solutions all day long, but few want to hear that the way to build a business or make money is to work hard for a long time and never surrender. — Sean Platt

Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers. — Sean Platt

But thats the beauty of the human condition; we're always able to see the spring on the other side of winter, so long as we're willing to try. — Sean Platt

Humans thought that the world occurred and observation followed, despite their scientists demonstrating otherwise. — Sean Platt

The people who read pirated books are never going to buy your work anyway; it's a totally different audience than purchasing readers. Even if you could scrub your stuff from the Internet, you'd only be keeping your book from pirate readers. You wouldn't convert those readers into buyers. They'd simply read something else that was free. — Sean Platt

Here's some news that will raise the hackles of many a serious artiste: People do judge books by their covers. You may not want to hear that, but it's true. You may have the most awesome story ever told, and it might deserve to kick Hemingway and Steinbeck in the nuts and run off with their girlfriends, but nobody will ever read it if you have a terrible cover. — Sean Platt

The first draft is your "vomit onto the keyboard" draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts. — Sean Platt

You're allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character. — Sean Platt

If you want to succeed in indie publishing, be prepared to work your ass off and demonstrate patience. Writers who aren't willing to do those two things will fail. Period. — Sean Platt