“No editor or publisher ever wakes up in the morning, looks out his window, and scans the landscape for a brilliant writer who’s just too shy to put himself or herself forward. It’s a put yourself forward business, at every level.” Hey–that’s me talking, in an interview with Derek Alger in pif magazine, a very entertaining and informative magazine for writers, especially young ones. Derek saw me speak at the Marymount Manhattan Writers Conference in June, and I’m flattererd that he thought of asking me to sit for an interview in his magazine.