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"Ive been asked: What advice would you give others who are hoping to break in?

My answer? Believe. If you truly believe in yourself and your talent, you will be motivated to actually sit down and write the book instead of only dreaming about it. You will be driven to seek out any help you may need (research or craft-related) to make it the best you can create. You will follow-through with marketing, and you wont give up if you dont sell immediately. Belief drives the entire engine even through the rough spots. It battles discouragement, which is, according to Webster, to deprive of courage or confidence. How many army commanders would win a war or coaches would win a game if they deprived their army/team of courage and confidence? Now think about the fact that you are a commander of one. How do you treat yourself? Do you allow yourself to be deprived of courage and confidence?

Consider the following:
***The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck was returned fourteen times, but it went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.
***Patrick Dennis said of his autobiographical novel Auntie Mame, It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press, which, as you can see, is rather deep into the alphabet.
***Mary Higgins Clark was rejected forty times before selling her first story. One editor wrote: Your story is light, slight, and trite. More than 30 million copies of her books are now in print.
***Before he wrote Roots, Alex Haley had received 200 rejections.
***John Grishams first novel, A Time to Kill, was declined by fifteen publishers andsome thirty agents. His novels have more than 60 million copies in print.
***Thirty-three publishers couldnt digest Chicken Soup for the Soul, compiled by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, before it became a huge best-seller and spawned a series.
***Louis LAmour received 200 rejections before he sold his first novel. During the last forty years, Bantam has shipped nearly 200 million of his 112 books, making him its biggest selling author.
***Eight years after his novel Steps won the National Book Award, Jerzy Kosinski permitted a writer to change his name and the title and send a manuscript of the novel to thirteen agents and fourteen publishers to test the plight of new writers. They all rejected it, including Random House, which had published it.There you have it. Youve probably heard it before, but let me remind you: every no brings you that much closer to a yes. If you persevere. If you believe."