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I want to respond to the comment that one –me — might be exasperated by all the hassles involved in marketing one’s own book, that there is so much dreck out there that makes money, that knowing this may make one siimply capitulate to the capitalists. To answer this is for me to explain why I continued to write for 40 years, replete with rejections that were supportive as well as cutting and cruel as I set out to make myself a writer. I was moved to explain me to me, to deal with my depression, to understand my life,…

I’ll post my query for Down to a Sunless Sea shortly ; apparently it has done the trick. It is a mixture of quotations from reviews of the book, my past credits or dumb luck in how it is phrased. Probably it is my citing that my first short story ever published was listed with Mailer, Oates and Singer. Couldn’t hurt? Perhaps Sondheim may write one of his sophisticated songs called, “Who do you know?” Some observations as I go about marketing in my own way. It seems that one has to probe magazines more than once; in fact, after…

Life has grabbed me intensely since the last blog. I am deeply involved in “marketing” Down to a Sunless Sea. I am concentrating, for those out there who are writers or want to live the writer’s life, whatever that is, on the “blogosphere.” Diligently, working with blog directories (see “litblog,” to wit)), I am discovering websites all over the world and apparently for those of us who want to market their self-published books, this is one significant way to explore. I have had almost 80 (!) requests for review copies. See the review of my new book by Kevin Eagen…