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This is the nonfiction story of one man's quest to publish a fiction novel:
Chapter 20: Two out of Three
loveTypically, I try to make this blog about everyone else as much as it is about me. I give my pitiful attempt at publishing advice, even though I’ve never succeeded at it, and my pitiful attempt at writing advice, even though I’m obviously not good enough at it to achieve publishing success, in an equally pitiful attempt to help current and would-be writers.
But sometimes a blogger just has to do what a Web log was created for – that is, to function as a “live” journal.
Two good things happened to me in as many weeks. First, John Lehman, editor of the literary publications Cup of Poems, Rosebud, WI Academy Review, The Quill Driver, and WisconsonPoet.com (plus author of multiple books and scribe and star of a one-man play) has decided to put my blog in his publications. He is printing seven pages worth of my rhetoric, starting on the cover:
You can buy John's latest book, Shorts, 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise, by sending a check for $12 to the 315 Water St. Cambridge, WI 53523 (no tax or shipping necessary). You can order Everything Is Changing: How to Gain Loyal Clients and Customers Quickly by John Lehman and David Bruns at www.amazon.com ($13) or by sending a check to the same address and he will pay the shipping.
And then, something even more wonderful and amazing happened (with no offense to the kindness of John). I asked the most beautiful and talented woman I have ever met if she wanted to spend the rest of my life with me as my wife, and stupidly, she said yes.
That’s right, we are about to add a wifey to the BookSay family. Mrs. Booksay is Kristina Amodei, and meeting her is the single greatest event in my life. I am so honored and blessed and ecstatic and lucky.
As you may recall, a recent post mentioned the myth that good things come in three. Well, here are two very, very good things, so does that mean a third is on its way? Is it time to get published?
I don’t know. More e-mail issues have arisen with The Cooke Agency. I’m even more in doubt than I was before that my e-mails aren't going through. But we’ll leave that for another day. Today is a time to celebrate. I am engaged. I’m going to get to torture the same woman with reading my manuscripts for the rest of our lives. Does it get any more wonderful than that?
But sometimes a blogger just has to do what a Web log was created for – that is, to function as a “live” journal.
Two good things happened to me in as many weeks. First, John Lehman, editor of the literary publications Cup of Poems, Rosebud, WI Academy Review, The Quill Driver, and WisconsonPoet.com (plus author of multiple books and scribe and star of a one-man play) has decided to put my blog in his publications. He is printing seven pages worth of my rhetoric, starting on the cover:
You can buy John's latest book, Shorts, 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise, by sending a check for $12 to the 315 Water St. Cambridge, WI 53523 (no tax or shipping necessary). You can order Everything Is Changing: How to Gain Loyal Clients and Customers Quickly by John Lehman and David Bruns at www.amazon.com ($13) or by sending a check to the same address and he will pay the shipping.
And then, something even more wonderful and amazing happened (with no offense to the kindness of John). I asked the most beautiful and talented woman I have ever met if she wanted to spend the rest of my life with me as my wife, and stupidly, she said yes.
That’s right, we are about to add a wifey to the BookSay family. Mrs. Booksay is Kristina Amodei, and meeting her is the single greatest event in my life. I am so honored and blessed and ecstatic and lucky.
As you may recall, a recent post mentioned the myth that good things come in three. Well, here are two very, very good things, so does that mean a third is on its way? Is it time to get published?
I don’t know. More e-mail issues have arisen with The Cooke Agency. I’m even more in doubt than I was before that my e-mails aren't going through. But we’ll leave that for another day. Today is a time to celebrate. I am engaged. I’m going to get to torture the same woman with reading my manuscripts for the rest of our lives. Does it get any more wonderful than that?
Matthew Ulmer @ BookSay
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