Throughout his long career, he’s published over 300 books. He remarked, “It’s a lot of work to bring a book into the world… People who don’t know me, they think that my lifelong passion is to have been a writer and it was, but there’s something about being a book publisher for other authors that has sort of brought out, I think it’s just a skill that I have… I feel it’s valuable.”
When asked how independent publishing has changed in the past 30 years, Steve said, “Thankfully the one thing that hasn’t changed for me is the production and creation of tangible objects, but there’s times that you feel like that might not be part of it anymore.”
If you were to say, ‘If you had a year left to live will you regret not having written another book?’ .. I would say yes, but I also won’t look back and say, ‘My god, you wasted 30 plus years helping other people be writers.’ I would never think that. I think that it’s probably one of the most exciting things that I’ve ever done is take ideas that come into me out of the blue and give people, like, sort of their goal or their dream come true.
You’ve heard it said, so many books, so little time, but isn’t it wonderful that in this country, we have access to all these wonderful books?
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