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    Write Now! On the Road to Getting Published or How I Learned to Sell My Book
    Write Now! On the Road to Getting Published or How I Learned to Sell My Book
    Write Now! On the Road to Getting Published or How I Learned to Sell My Book
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    Write Now! On the Road to Getting Published or How I Learned to Sell My Book

    By Joseph Sutton

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    Write Now! is a BIG/little book about writing, writer's block, rejection, publishing, and selling his book. It is also the story of the making of a writer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Sutton
    Release dateAug 12, 2010
    ISBN9781452384054
    Write Now! On the Road to Getting Published or How I Learned to Sell My Book
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    Joseph Sutton

    Joseph Sutton was born in Brooklyn and raised in Hollywood. He played football at the University of Oregon and graduated with a degree in philosophy. He earned a teaching credential and a degree in history at Cal State University Los Angeles and taught high school history and English for many years. Sutton, who has been writing for more than 50 years, has published over two dozen books. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous national magazines and journals. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Joan.

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      Write Now! On the Road to Getting Published or How I Learned to Sell My Book - Joseph Sutton

      WRITE NOW!

      On the Road to Getting Published

      or How I Learned to Sell My Book

      Joseph Sutton

      Copyright 2010 by Joseph Sutton

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      On the Road to Getting Published

      Now is the Time of Your Life

      The Day I Became a Writer

      Since I Consider Myself an Autobiographical Writer

      This Writer's Declaration

      The Wind and the Universe

      Thoughts of a Writer on Crutches

      What I Set Out to Write Today

      Writing Advice

      On Writing - My Journal

      On the Eve of Being Published

      How I Learned to Sell My Book, Morning Pages

      About the Author

      Other Titles by Joseph Sutton

      Connect with Joseph Sutton

      Introduction

      WRITE NOW! is a BIG/little book about writing, writer’s block, rejection, publishing and selling your book. It’s a book about the urge to write, writing mentors, fighting against complacency, when to start to write and what to write. It’s a book about stick-to-itiveness. It’s a book about thoughts and feelings. It’s a book about imagination, baseball, politics and more.

      But mostly, WRITE NOW! is a book about confidence. Does an individual have the confidence in himself to sit down, every day, and write the words that finally join together to make the sentences and paragraphs that form his work?

      If you’re a writer or want to be a writer, Joseph Sutton will take you by the hand and lead you into the writer’s life—to the life of rejection, questioning your writing abilities, wondering if you’ll ever get published or republished and what to do when no one comes to your book reading. In other words, this BIG/little book is the story of the making of a writer.

      —Donald S. Ellis, Publisher

      On the Road to Getting Published

      My publisher, Don Ellis, came into my life the day after my friend, Sky Diamond, passed away. Let me explain the connection.

      Sky Diamond was not only a good friend of mine, he was my chiropractor, confidant and a fervent admirer of my writing. I wish he could have lived to a ripe old age, but no, he died at the age of 57 of Hepatitis C on Wednesday, April 14, 1999. He was in the hospital a full month waiting for a liver transplant that never arrived.

      When I first started seeing Sky for chiropractic adjustments, I was not well off financially. Not only that, I was about to quit my high school teaching job because of the stress it was causing me. To top it off, I had a family to support. At the time, the only way I could compensate Sky was to give him a collection of my short stories in manuscript form. Soon after I paid him, Sky called one night and told me how much he loved my stories. He honored me even more by saying, They were so good, Joe, I cried after I finished reading them. He considered my stories payment for his services until I could afford to pay him. What he was really telling me was Keep writing, and don’t stop.

      Years passed and I was back on my feet again. While at his office one day, Sky asked how I was doing.

      I’m a little depressed, I told him. I received four rejections in the mail today.

      Sky immediately sprang to my defense. Don’t worry about the outcome of your writing, Joe, it’s the journey that counts. What’s important is the putting of words on paper.

      I understand what you’re saying, Sky, but it’s not easy getting four rejections in one day.

      Remember what I’m about to tell you, he said. Everything happens for a reason. If you get rejected, there’s a reason for it.

      Yeah, the reason is, I’m a poor writer.

      You and I know that’s not true. There’s a yin and yang to everything in life. Look how unhappy you are now about your writing. Someday things are going to turn around and you’re going to feel just the opposite.

      On a February day in 1999, two months before Sky would pass away, I received a postcard in the mail. It had to do with an event celebrating Jack Kerouac’s birthday. The card listed several people who were going to read passages from Kerouac’s works at the Black Cat restaurant in San Francisco’s North Beach District. A close friend of mine, George Kaye, was going to be one of the readers. I was reluctant to go because the price of admission was $10 (would Kerouac have approved of that?), but since I was a great admirer of Kerouac and because George was going to read, I decided to attend.

      The night of the celebration took place on March 12, Kerouac’s birthday. I arrived at the Black Cat and went downstairs to the Blue Bar. The place was packed. I ordered a draft beer, found George, and sat with him before he excused himself to prepare for his reading.

      All the readers—Don Ellis being one of them—read a passage from their favorite Kerouac novel. They all did a fine job of conveying that special Kerouac style. It was interesting to hear Kerouac’s words again because he was a tremendous influence on me when I began my writing career back in 1969. I wanted to write just like him: swift, jazzy, no holds barred. At times I

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