Great post! I volunteered at AWP check-in and a real perk was seeing the name tags come out of the printer and ever-so-gently fan girling a couple favorites. It was reassuring to learn you can have a breakout book and still fuss with the QR code for 5 minutes.
My favorite way to be a good literary citizen is to buy multiple copies of an excellent, not already buzzy, book for people who I think will like it too. Best case it gets a little buzz and convo going among my family and friends. Even if they don’t read the book, the author sold a few more copies.
Feel the same way about Refuse to be Done. I found this post through your comment there.
Thanks for your note, Kelly. I see you’re a fellow Texan. Not sure where you are but here in the northern part of the DFW metroplex, we’ve been snowed in for days! I haven’t done any writing to speak of, but I’ve done a lot of baking and reading. I’m also learning to knit. This may be the year of rage knitting!
I'm afraid in that case it'll be a productive knitting year! I'm in Houston - only a smidgen done during the cold lock-in, but I did play my share of table top word games.
I went to an online training today to learn how to register people to vote. I feel pretty good about getting out there.
Hi Chris, Nice to "meet" you! I haven't had a chance to read your post yet, but I will. We need all the good literary citizenship we can get in these hard days. I haven't attended Kauai in person...yet. I want to wait until I have a finished manuscript and can use the time to approach agents, etc. I first read about Kauai going fully online in Poets & Writers Magazine, in the early days of covid. So I signed up and did that for several years. I stopped, but recently rejoined. I don't always get to attend live, but often go back and watch sessions I've missed that are of interest to me. Best wishes on your writing.
I just found this work while searching for an image on a substack I am about to post with the same name! - ok so I'll change my title, and my content is different, but I just got that tiger beat feeling as I read your work.... And, I was at Kauai Writers Conference in 2019! (pre-covid lock down!!) When did you attend?
Great post! I volunteered at AWP check-in and a real perk was seeing the name tags come out of the printer and ever-so-gently fan girling a couple favorites. It was reassuring to learn you can have a breakout book and still fuss with the QR code for 5 minutes.
My favorite way to be a good literary citizen is to buy multiple copies of an excellent, not already buzzy, book for people who I think will like it too. Best case it gets a little buzz and convo going among my family and friends. Even if they don’t read the book, the author sold a few more copies.
Feel the same way about Refuse to be Done. I found this post through your comment there.
Thanks for your note, Kelly. I see you’re a fellow Texan. Not sure where you are but here in the northern part of the DFW metroplex, we’ve been snowed in for days! I haven’t done any writing to speak of, but I’ve done a lot of baking and reading. I’m also learning to knit. This may be the year of rage knitting!
I'm afraid in that case it'll be a productive knitting year! I'm in Houston - only a smidgen done during the cold lock-in, but I did play my share of table top word games.
I went to an online training today to learn how to register people to vote. I feel pretty good about getting out there.
Hi Chris, Nice to "meet" you! I haven't had a chance to read your post yet, but I will. We need all the good literary citizenship we can get in these hard days. I haven't attended Kauai in person...yet. I want to wait until I have a finished manuscript and can use the time to approach agents, etc. I first read about Kauai going fully online in Poets & Writers Magazine, in the early days of covid. So I signed up and did that for several years. I stopped, but recently rejoined. I don't always get to attend live, but often go back and watch sessions I've missed that are of interest to me. Best wishes on your writing.
I just found this work while searching for an image on a substack I am about to post with the same name! - ok so I'll change my title, and my content is different, but I just got that tiger beat feeling as I read your work.... And, I was at Kauai Writers Conference in 2019! (pre-covid lock down!!) When did you attend?