Goodreads asked Bobby Underwood:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Bobby Underwood Don't worry about where and how your book will "fit in" to a bland, cookie-cutter market. Don't try to write a bestseller. You might succeed, but end up empty, creatively unfulfilled. Stay true to your vision and tell your story with passion. People read books every day that they forget shortly after the last page, not necessarily because they want to, but because the big publishing houses saturate the market with them, until readers despairingly feel like it is all they have to choose from. What they really want is a terrific story, in whatever genre. If you have a great story to tell, and tell it well and with passion, beauty, poignancy, some wistfulness, they will love it. And when one person discovers it, they'll tell others, and you'll begin to build an audience.

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