Linda Shelnutt
ASIN: B00AAJNQ9S
Publisher: KINDLE GLOW BOOKS
Pages: 61
Living in [the middle of] a Manuscript is a warmly humorous account of how it was in the early 1990's in the publishing industry from the zany perspective of an obscure, prolific, politically outrageous writer [more so now in 2015 ]. As far as how to get the attention of the major NYC publishing house in those days, the poignant satire in this short piece comes too frequently from the how NOT. If there's a "how to" here, it's for maintaining the spirit to keep going on the long roads traveled by highly creative individuals. The how to is about maintaining the spirit of integrity in creative process. The story is about how not to quit and how to enjoy the process as much as possible when working in a vacuum, working for that day of living in the mainstream of the book marketplace instead of in the middle of a manuscript.Even though retrospect from 2015 returning to 1993 exposes maybe too ...