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“Years later you realize there are some stories

you never write down. Some stories you only tell

and tell only to someone you don’t know well,

maybe after the loss of a sibling or an auto accident,

in a quiet place over a cigarette or coffee.”

KURT OLSSON, SOME STORIES, BURNING DOWN DISNEYLAND

“Oh, Henry Dickens had a wife, a son so they claim,

Candy was his cover, his calling was to maim.

Children and their mommies, daddies all the same,

Peanut brittle was his weapon, Brittle Butcher his nickname.”

WILLOW STORROW, 4TH VERSE, THE BRITTLE BUTCHER OF HILLSDALE

“Insert up to three quotations at the beginning of your

manuscript. Quotations impress editors and readers by

demonstrating you are a serious author who is well versed

in the vast literary tradition. Selected quotations need not

be relevant to your book’s content, only that they appear to

be so. Readers will have forgotten them by the end.”

ANNA CARMEN HOPE, BESTSELLERITIS!: HOW TO CATCH IT!