This blog is about all three things, noting of course that the first two offer infinite pleasure while the third offers unlimited agony.
Reading -For me this is mostly children’s books and Victorian novels.
Favorite children’s books: Lloyd Alexander’s Taran series, beginning with The Book of Three.
Favorite Victorian novel: Bleak House, by Charles Dickens.
Other favorite: Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
Writing – I have only written mid-grade novels and frankly its the only thing I care to write. Reading as a fifth and sixth grader was so much fun. So I write books for the sixth-grade version of myself.
TRYING to publish books — There are certainly some great moments, but there are a whole lot of bad ones, too. And they don’t end when you get your first book accepted either. But it is awfully exciting as the draw nears for my Qwikpick book to be released.
My batting average: .250. Eight books written, two books sold. (I think it’s 8, sometimes it’s hard to remember how many are on “the stack.”)
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