Review: No secrets, just a series of short interviews and profiles
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2013
The only true secret of a successful writer is to write, so the premise of this book is somewhat off kilter from its title.  A series of interviews with writers of different success levels, the book asks some of the questions the average beginning writer would want answers to.  Unfortunately, a pattern soon emerges -- that no writer is simply an assembly line worker, able to easily be replaced with a different one at a shift change.  The individuality is readily apparent, especially with the description of a writer's typical day.  Any aspiring writer can easily see that any method that works is really a secret for that specific writer.  But at least the interviews provide interesting glimpses into possibilities any writer might choose.