[bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:57:00 -0400
As it's a work of humor, we think our audience is pretty much anyone looking
for a laugh and, perhaps, to see a human side of people with vision
impairment that puts us outside of the "poor blind person" box and shows
that we can have a sense of humor about our way of being and that we have
similar desires and such as everyone else.
Sighties who have read portions always laugh pretty loudly at some of the
situations we describe in our gonzo fashion.
Cdh
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Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:24 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
If you write such a book, who is your audience?
Sighted people?
E.
At 09:07 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote:
>The books sound interesting, Chris. Maybe you can add a chapter that
>includes all the ridiculous and/or unkind situations sighted people
>have put blind people in based on the recent discussions on the bookshare
site.
>
>What does "blink" stand for? I can figure out "blind" but not the rest of
it.
>
>G.Cindy
>
>
>--- On Wed, 6/25/08, Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 10:34 AM
> > Thanks Nan!
> >
> > Dena and I are trying to focus on "Groping Through
> > Life: The Tactile Way to
> > Live" which will include a bunch of vignettes about
> > situations where sighted
> > people would be embarrassed or outraged but a blink can get
> > away with. One
> > chapter is entirely on sex and the guide dog when your
> > sighted partner says,
> > "He's looking at me..." and grows
> > uncomfortable.
> >
> > I'm also working on a long piece with Susanne Kammlott
> > (Boston Phoenix,
> > Boston Globe, various magazines) who has an agent and a ton
> > of cred but we
> > keep starting and stopping and reworking and looping back
> > again.
> >
> > Finally, I've a memoir of drug addiction, blindness and
> > recovery which is
> > all pretty dark until the end that I find myself working on
> > when I had set
> > out to do something with one of the others.
> >
> > cdh
> >
> > Chris Hofstader
> > CUNY, BSO, ATG, Odds and Ends
> > email: cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Blog: http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com
> > <http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com/>
> > Skype: BlindChristian
> > phone: 727-896-6393
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > Nan Hawthorne
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:58 PM
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
> >
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > I can answer your questions, but maybe not quite as you
> > intended.
> >
> > How do I maintain the discipline to focus on one project at
> > a time..
> > actually this has not come up as I have had so much emotion
> > wrapped up in An
> > Involuntary King that though I had more ideas floating
> > about they patiently
> > waited for the "heart's work" to be done. I
> > suppose my own question would
> > be, does it matter? Can you work on more than one at a
> > time? If not, I
> > guess willpower will be required.
> >
> > Second question about getting something to the top of a
> > publisher's pile.
> > One answer might be getting a good agent. That's not
> > how I went. I am a
> > board member of the Independent Author's Guild
> > www.independentauthorsguild.org - we are authors who
> > intentionally publish
> > through small press publishers and publish on demand
> > companies. Since
> > corporate publishing is leveraged to their eyeballs these
> > days they are risk
> > adverse.. and it is well nigh impossible to get their
> > motive. As a result
> > tons of well written and particularly genre fiction just
> > does not get
> > published. I knew An Involuntary King hadn't chance,
> > no matter the
> > quality, because Saxon era fiction is represented by
> > Bernard Cornwell and no
> > one else.. the publishers are adamant that no one reads it.
> > Since I will
> > read anything written about that era I can get my ears on,
> > I know that's not
> > true. So I chose to set up my own press and use a POD.
> > The stigma of
> > "self-publishing" is no longer valid. There is
> > indie music recording, indie
> > film making, and indie software development. Why do we
> > assume indie book
> > publishing will result in crap? I will rely on my readers
> > to make that
> > judgment. And now that more than half of books sold are
> > sold online it is
> > no disadvantage.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > Nan Hawthorne
> >
> >
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