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 > > > __________ NOD32 3218 (20080625) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.__________ NOD32 3219 (20080625) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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