How to Fail as an Author: A Memoir and Guide by Steven E. Wedel

If you’d told me at the beginning of the year that I was going to write a how-to book for authors, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. But I have been reading so many of them that just didn’t seem to cover my situation, that I decided to outline one. Then I wrote a chapter. And another. And pretty soon I had a book.

I asked my friend Rick Hipson, interviewer and author of A Reviewer’s Guide to Writing Book Reviews: And How to Get Paid for Them to write a foreword because he’s been foll...