#4 Have a positive attitude and be realistic             While having tea in a bookstore the other day, a man at the next table struck up a conversation with me. No, the point of this story isn’t that I was actually able to find a bookstore where I could sit and read, peruse the shelves and speak randomly to other book lovers—although that certainly is worthy of a blog post—it’s what he said when he learned I was a published author.             “My book is going to be more popular than Harry Potter and Fifty Shades combined.”             I did some quick math. That meant he believed his novel was going to sell in excess of 550 million copies.             “Great.” I considered asking if he was writing about a domineeri......

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