[bksvol-discuss] Re: My novel
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:34:40 -0400
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
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[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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