About the Author
“I was amazed when Blackie told me that Phoenix would need almost nine months to prepare my novel for publication, a span devoted to editing and copyediting the text, proofreading and typesetting it, creating cover art, writing jacket-flap and promotional copy, making up galleys (known as advance reader’s editions—paperback versions sent out to selected cultural buzzmeisters to generate a groundswell of favorable word of mouth), and then the printing of copies, followed by their distribution to ...the stores—where people like my former stockboy self would unpack them and put them on the shelves. Not until next spring could I expect to hold a copy of the actual book in my hand. It was now only August! “How am I going to kill the time until then?” I wailed to Blackie. “Enjoy yourself,” he said. “You’ve earned the break.”
Trying to believe this, I spent the next stunned and unreal weeks strolling around the summer city. I shopped for a whole new wardrobe.MoreLess
Trying to believe this, I spent the next stunned and unreal weeks strolling around the summer city. I shopped for a whole new wardrobe.MoreLess
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