Comments on: True Stories Often Make Us Want To Throw in The Towel (But Then We’d Be Without A Towel, and That’s Even Worse) https://booksquare.com/true-stories-often-make-us-want-to-throw-in-the-towel-but-then-wed-be-without-a-towel-and-thats-even-worse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=true-stories-often-make-us-want-to-throw-in-the-towel-but-then-wed-be-without-a-towel-and-thats-even-worse Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/true-stories-often-make-us-want-to-throw-in-the-towel-but-then-wed-be-without-a-towel-and-thats-even-worse/#comment-22189 Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:32:46 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/01/14/929/#comment-22189 Paul, congratulations on the St. Martins contract. I’ve met several editors there (and partied in their offices…great, grea view!). I want to be there with you some day. Thanks for sharing your story — when I quit my day job, my polite excuse was that I wanted to write full time (what…tell people that you had to leave or bad things might happen, and they’d be on the news?). Now, as they’ve dragged me back on consulting basis, I deal with the “when can we read…?” questions. I’m starting to think they’re starting to think I’m not quite as good as they thought.

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]]> By: Paul Clayton https://booksquare.com/true-stories-often-make-us-want-to-throw-in-the-towel-but-then-wed-be-without-a-towel-and-thats-even-worse/#comment-19873 Sat, 15 Jan 2005 04:11:12 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/01/14/929/#comment-19873 Ah! Getting published! I could write a book, or open a vein… When my book, Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam, was named a finalist at the 2001 Frankfurt eBook Awards, everyone at work thought I’d be walking in the boss’s office any day to turn in my resignation. I knew better, having published three books prior, which they knew nothing of. But, this was different, and so I broke my silence. After Frankfurt, it took another two years to find a publisher – St. Martin’s. But it’s still a long hard slog, and all up to me. It may all come to naught. But I don’t give a damn. I’ll write ’em until they cut my arms off or put me in an asylum. Keep on writing and reading. Smash your TV. Hit the streets and pass out copies of your book. Let them lock their car doors, what do you care? Say it loud, I’m a writer, damn it. Now you read… or else. Watch the skies…

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