Really feeling a kinship with your superstitious scheming, and the double-think of it: career invitations will appear only when I’m sincerely and utterly devoted to my personal life, so I will now give myself over *completely* to Real Life…while also keeping my mind’s eye on my inbox.
I’ve had the vague feeling that people with power are closing ranks, controlling their levers of attention more tightly, and that the literary world is getting even narrower as a result. I hope I’m wrong but it was interesting to see this newsletter about the struggle. I’m wondering too what the closure of SPD means for all us indie people….
I think it’s happening—your gut is good, Leslie. And when I wrote this I hadn’t yet heard about SPD but now of course when I gather my thoughts, I think I’ll have a lot to say. Right now I mostly feel a little desperate about it, even though SPD was no golden halo of distribution, and my hope is that a new distributor (WITH SALES TEAMS emerges).
Really feeling a kinship with your superstitious scheming, and the double-think of it: career invitations will appear only when I’m sincerely and utterly devoted to my personal life, so I will now give myself over *completely* to Real Life…while also keeping my mind’s eye on my inbox.
I really thought last year I was ~manifesting~ and now I'm pretty sure I'm dreadsplaining!
I’ve had the vague feeling that people with power are closing ranks, controlling their levers of attention more tightly, and that the literary world is getting even narrower as a result. I hope I’m wrong but it was interesting to see this newsletter about the struggle. I’m wondering too what the closure of SPD means for all us indie people….
I think it’s happening—your gut is good, Leslie. And when I wrote this I hadn’t yet heard about SPD but now of course when I gather my thoughts, I think I’ll have a lot to say. Right now I mostly feel a little desperate about it, even though SPD was no golden halo of distribution, and my hope is that a new distributor (WITH SALES TEAMS emerges).
You have always reached for the A+ on everything you do. It all will come around.
Schemers scheming together! ❤️
You're the BEST schemer to scheme with too!!!
"but let this newsletter be the rubbed sandpaper of a tiny flame growing there" <3
gotta have a little something! <3