The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending THINGS out, not to FRIENDS and RELATIVES, but to people who have the power to BUY. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is FUNDAMENTAL.

In EVERY community in Illinois, SAME-SEX couples have chosen to join together and, in many instances, to raise FAMILIES of their own. These couples are our relatives and friends, our neighbors, co-workers and parents of our children's classmates. They deserve the same rights and RESPONSIBILITIES that civil marriage OFFERS straight couples.

I have WRITTEN about the WOMEN around me. My ANCESTORS, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make SENSE.

I'm just RAISING MONEY. DEAD PRESIDENTS are my RELATIVES.

My mother, my RELATIVES, and closest friends have risked their lives in the AREA of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate POLICE.'

I'm married to a Canadianm so I have a lot of FOND THOUGHTS about Canada. I think about the prairies of Manitoba, where my WIFE is from, and I have a lot of FRIENDS and relatives on both coasts and have spent a lot time in Canada from Nova Scotia to B.C. In some ways, it's a much more sane country than the U.S.

It isn't NECESSARY to have relatives in KANSAS City in order to be UNHAPPY.

Stephen could be highly CRITICAL of people other than his closest relatives... He considered my FRIENDS to be EASY victims and had no compunction in monopolizing the CONVERSATION at parties with his controversial OPINIONS.

When I SEE professional clowns, mimes, or PEOPLE who MAKES ballon animals, I think of their RELATIVES and how disappointed they must be.