Goodreads asked Barry Bowe:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Barry Bowe I don't like Stephen King. Just not a fan of that genre. I read "Carrie" when I was hospitalized following knee surgery. But I got tremendous advice from Stephen King via an interview I read somewhere. To paraphrase: the interviewer asked King how it felt to be an overnight success. King laughed. He said it took him seven years to become an overnight success. He said that if you weren't ready to face rejections for seven years, find something else to do. I took that advice to heart and began my seven-year program. And he was right. I got rejection after rejection for a good two years. But I never took any of the rejections personally. They were reminders that my writing was not yet good enough for publication. But I kept trying and learning. During my third year, I got job as a sports reporter with the local daily newspaper. And less than a year later, a national magazine bought a detective-fiction piece.

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