Last Friday I had the pleasure of receiving a email from the very cool, Snubnose Press, informing me that they are going to publish my novel (title to be confirmed) midway through 2012. Why have I waited a week to tell you this exciting news? Unsure. Probably because it doesn’t feel real yet, even though I’ve signed the contract.
Hemmingway once said, allegedly, four things one must do to become a man is: plant a tree, fight a bull, write a novel, and father a son. I’ve fathered a daughter, planted a tree, fought a man the size of a bull, and wrote a novel (four to be exact). Maybe in Hemmingway’s eyes I’m not quite the man yet, but when I got that email last Friday, I damn well felt like the luckiest one alive.
Snubnose Press is a powerhouse of a publishing company. It already has among its growing authors, Sandra Ruttan, Keith Rawson, Patti Abbott, and boasts new work by Chad Rohrbacher, Helen Fitzgerald, Nik Korpon and Richard Thomas in 2012. Added to this the illustrator is the annoying talented Boden Steiner, and editor, Brian Lindenmuth, I’m being to feel somewhat of a fraud being there. Nonetheless, they’ve opened their doors, and now I have my size 12s firmly wedged in the gap to stop them from shutting it in my face.
So yes, it’s end of the world next year, but before then I’ll have my short story collection, Quintessence of Dust published by KUBOA Publishing, my novel by Snubnose Press, and a fair few short stories out there too. What better reading can you ask for while you await that final Tsunami?
1 comments:
Quintessence of Dust... Sounds really interesting. All the best!
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