Unsolicited Press announced the immediate availability of WRITING NAKED by Michael Murray. WRITING NAKED delivers raw, skin-scratched emotion from a writer who has struggled his entire to life to look himself in the mirror and say, "Michael, I love you." In this debut essay collection, Michael Murray invites you to follow him on a meandering journey to witness glimpses of the moments in his life that have brought him to here—a place of solace and heart. In “Grad School,” Murray calls poetry “…the mathematics of language…” as he recollects the MFA program application process. While poetry is certainly not the subject of WRITING NAKED, Murray proves that his craft, whether it be poetry or prose, is poetic. Essays, each one ripe with story, work to understand his purpose in life. From his first day on earth to his struggles with drugs and alcohol, Murray exposes himself in ways only a person deemed "irrational" would consider doing. But that's just it: Murray isn't irrational. He's a man experiencing the lifelong process of coping with cards the universe dealt him, for better or worse. Critical Reviews of WRITING NAKED “Two things strike me in regards to Writing Naked: Michael’s innocence and his anger that some deal had been scuttled, some pact abrogated, some promise made at birth broken, brokenness ever after. And ever after his search to return to innocence. Maybe that is what Cleveland is for him, in a funny way unsullied in spite of all the pain he has experienced there. It is as if he thinks all the horror is some kind of mistake, not something he can accept as unavoidable. I think it is the way the innocence and anger weave in and out of each other that makes this collection powerful,” said Grey Wolf. WRITING NAKED by Michael Murray Availability WRITING NAKED by Michael Murray is available wherever books are sold and directly from the publisher at www.unsolicitedpress.com. Founded in 2012, Unsolicited Press is a small press committed to developing literary titles from unsung authors. The team strives to produce exemplary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Unsolicited Press announced the immediate availability of THE GOLD TOOTH IN THE CROOKED SMILE OF GOD by Douglas Cole. The poetry collection is being released in both hardback and paperback editions. Douglas Cole has published four collections of poetry. His work appears in journals such as The Chicago Quarterly Review, Chiron, The Galway Review, and Slipstream. He has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net and received the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry. His website is douglastcole.com. Critical Reviews of The Gold Tooth in the Crooked Smile of God “There's some kind of magic going on in Douglas Cole's The Gold Tooth in the Crooked Smile of God,” says Jim Daniels, poet, screenwriter, author of Street Calligraphy and The Middle Ages. “These well-wrought poems celebrate the forgotten with dignity and warmth,” says John Skoyles, Editor Ploughshares, and author The Nut File and A Moveable Famine THE GOLD TOOTH IN THE CROOKED SMILE OF GOD by Douglas Cole Availability THE GOLD TOOTH IN THE CROOKED SMILE OF GOD by Douglas Cole is available wherever books are sold and directly from the publisher at www.unsolicitedpress.com. Founded in 2012, Unsolicited Press is a small press committed to developing literary titles from unsung authors. The team strives to produce exemplary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Poetry. The bread and butter of Unsolicited Press. This October 2018, we are proud to release Douglas Cole's poetry collection The Gold Tooth in the Crooked Smile of God. We all know readers want to know more about the authors they read, thus, Cole has sat down with us to answer some fun, silly, and intimate questions. Enjoy. Unsolicited Press Announces Availability of I TRAVEL IN RUSTING BURNED-OUT SEDANS by Jim Bohen10/23/2018
Unsolicited Press announces the immediate availability of I TRAVEL IN RUSTING BURNED-OUT SEDANS by Jim Bohen. On a Road takes the spirit and abandon of Kerouac westward on a journey into manhood for three Midwestern city boys who hit the road. Jim has two nonfiction books, Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir and The Portland House: A '70s Memoir. Jim also has two poetry collections, Reciting from Memory, and Written Life as well as a forthcoming chapbook, On a Road which releases on 10/21/2018. His non-fiction stories have been published in Main Street Rag, Prairie Rose Publications, Steam Ticket and others. His poetry has been featured in Torrid Literature Journal, Portage Magazine, Blue Heron Review and many others. He loves in Waukesha, Wisconsin with his wife Donna and their two children. He enjoys fishing, kayaking, biking and camping. Jim is poet laureate for the Village of Wales, Wisconsin. I TRAVEL IN RUSTING BURNED-OUT SEDANS by Jim Bohen is available wherever books are sold and directly from the publisher at www.unsolicitedpress.com. Poems that dive, move, surprise. Lyrical laments. Love poems. Rants with bite. Poems from the “corner of Lyric and Strange.” A “hip-hop sermon/montage” on America and the state of its dream. Sardonic humor. It's all there and more in Jim Bohen's first book of poetry, I travel in rusting burned-out sedans.
It's in slices from a life of writing — remembering the first day of school, singing the rock band blues, growing older, grandparent-hood. It's in the ominous tone that lurks behind the opening poem quiet to the weary rhythmic distress of the closing Cycle. In between, there are tender looks at the past. bitter rants about injustice and mortality. There's some delightful fun, whether it's playing with a word like “tell,” deciding what to do with the kids' stuff once they've moved out, celebrating a first grandchild with some clever exuberance, or delving into memories of secretly listening for late-night baseball scores on a “hidden” radio. Sometimes lyrically wistful, occasionally surrealistic, always thoughtful, Bohen's poems probe and preach, smile and reflect, snap and snarl. And wherever the poems travel — to challenging, down-to-earth, dark, funny and more — they bring back insights and give readers a chance to luxuriate in the poet's lifelong love of words, his meant-to-be-read-aloud rhythms and his unique use of rhyme. And everything found in a surprising variety of very satisfying poems. With just a few days from the release of Jim Bohen's I travel in rusting burned-out sedans, we wanted to share all of the reading events Bohen will be participating in after the release date: Nov. 7 (Wed) -- Book Launch for I travel in rusting burned-out sedans Anderson Student Center ("Hearth" Room 340), University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul 55105. [building is on the corner of Summit and Cretin; parking beneath (enter off Cretin, elevator) or in a Grand & Cretin ramp] Nov. 8 (Th) -- 7:30 pm -- Midstream Reading Series, 3820 E. Lake St., Minneapolis 55406. [above the Blue Moon Coffee Cafe, corner of Lake & 39th Ave. So.; entrance just west of Blue Moon, not wheelchair-accessible, street parking] -- read with Sigi Leonhard, Jonathan Stensland, Tracy Youngblom. Nov. 13 (Tu) -- Book Launch for I travel in rusting burned-out sedans Merriam Park Library, 1831 Marshall Ave. (at Fairview), St. Paul 55104. Small lot or street parking. Nov. 15 (Th) -- Bridges Reading Series (with 3 other poets), Blue Harbor Center for the Arts, 559 Humboldt Ave. (at George St.), St. Paul 55107. Nov. 27 (Tu) -- Common Good Books, 30 S. Snelling Ave., St. Paul 55105 -- reading with Joyce Sutphen (Minnesota's Poet Laureate), Sharon Chmielarz and Norita Dittberner-Jax. Nov. 28 (Wed) -- SubText Books, 6 West 5th Street, St. Paul 55102 -- with Sutphen, Chmielarz, Dittberner-Jax. Dec. 8 (Sat) -- Eat My Words Books, 214 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis 55413 -- with Sutphen, Chmielarz, Dittberner-Jax. Unsolicited Press announced the immediate availability of TO SQUARE A CIRCLE by T.K. Lee. TO SQUARE A CIRCLE is firmly rooted in the rich, at times, mythically rural language of the Deep South, as it peels back the edges of an arrested coming-of-age story, told in honest language and evocative imagery through the eyes of an unnamed narrator wrestling with his own independent voice against the persistent truths inherited from within the wound and ache of a dying, patchwork family. T.K. LEE is an award-winning member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers, among others. A published writer of Pushcart-nominated fiction, in addition to award-winning poetry, he is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MFA program at the Mississippi University for Women, in historic Columbus, Mississippi, birthplace of Tennessee Williams. TO SQUARE A CIRCLE by T.K. Lee is available wherever books are sold and directly from the publisher at www.unsolicitedpress.com. If you could cook dinner for any author, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you make?
I would invite to dinner Pablo Neruda, my favorite poet. And he would be served a big gleaming glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice (“Ode to the Orange”), fried tomatoes (“Ode to the Tomato”), and burning potatoes, lamb, undressed onions, and sugar-coated strawberries (“The Great Tablecloth”). What scares you the most about the writing process? How do you combat your fears? My greatest fear has always been being perceived as “just not good enough.” It doesn’t matter how many people tell me that they love my pieces, because I am absolutely my own worst critic. Nothing ever really is good enough in my eyes; I could always be funnier, darker, braver, bolder, more daring. But lately, I’ve been trying a new tactic that doesn’t involve me beating my head against a desk: optimism. Every time I complete something, I tell myself that I did the best I could, and that all art is subjective; one man’s slush pile refugee is another’s blazing jewel. Anytime I get stuck writing, I just take a breather: go for a walk or a drive, exercise, play with my son. Then I’ll come back to writing, and hopefully something will have come to me by then, or I’ll have at least developed the patience to keep trying. Who is your biggest literary crush, author or character? Pablo Neruda has always had my heart. With his mystical metaphors, lovestruck yet stone-faced themes and tones, and elegant rainbows of dauntless dreams, his lyrical, down-to-earth, resonating language can reduce me to a pile of rabid rubble, seething for more jagged imagery and expressions of sheer eloquence. What books are on your nightstand? Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette, by Sena Jeter Naslund Girl With the Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, by Pablo Neruda The Creation, by Bruce Beasley Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing, by Charif Shanahan The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter Don’t Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom: Stories, by Amy Hempel The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten, by Karlene Faith Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn Carrie, by Stephen King Whereas: Poems, by Layli Long Soldier Where do you get your ideas? What inspires you? Everything inspires me: the way the sunshine turns rocks into prisms; the forced sound of pretentious laughter dying on a woman’s overpainted lips; purple meadows and blazing forests and dauntless shadows. My greatest source of inspiration, however, comes from what many would describe as a hindrance: Bipolar Disorder. It flows through my lifeblood, echoing throughout every piece I write, every illusion I carefully craft or thoughtlessly shatter. Having been an inpatient in many hospitals throughout the years, I have taken away an armload of experiences, knowledge, compassion, empathy, anguish, rage, and other tall tales that no one wants to hear, let alone believe. Favorite punctuation mark? Why? The question mark is unquestionably my very favorite punctuation mark of all. I love asking questions, as well as being asked questions, and questions about questions about questions, of course. The question mark denotes curiosity, eagerness for knowledge, keenness for inquisition and acquisition. What recommended reading book did you skip in school? I never skipped a recommended reading book, mainly because I LIVED for reading (and still do), and for writing about reading. I prided myself on never being unprepared for a pop quiz or a long exam, and on polishing off tests while the rest of my classmates were still chewing their pencil erasers, discreetly peering over deskmates’ shoulders. (Yes, I was that tactfully smug kid at which you wanted to carefully aim your spitballs.) I loved learning the inner workings of novels: plot points, characterization, imagery, symbolism, themes, foreshadowing. I couldn’t get enough of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, Mark Doty. They all managed to place me under an invincible, intangible spell. What inanimate object would you thank in your acknowledgements? I would thank my hot-pink pen with the guitar-enameled cap, given to me by my fiancé Tony. Oh, that beautiful blazing blue electricity of crackling ink against newborn paper! I use my beloved pen to craft compositions, chisel rough drafts, refine raw ideas, and polish up poesy. Why do you write? The first 5 words that come to mind. Go. Passion. Duty. Veracity. Sincerity. Immortality. If you could write an inspirational quote on the mirrors of aspiring writers, what would you write? “Don’t be the writer. Be the writing.” - William Faulkner Unsolicited Press announces the immediate availability of A WALKING SHADOW by Gary Bolick. After walking away from a horrific car accident, untouched, Jonas Bellingham Ayre, sells his business, divorces his wife and moves to the desert. It is there, in the desert searching for answers, that his shadow, steps out and becomes a taunting foil. Months pass and still no answers. A burlap sack is thrown out from a passing train. Inside the sack, Jonas discovers and nurses back to health, Eva, an abused, near-dead woman, who in return, helps Jonas find redemption and a measure of peace as he becomes the moving force in reuniting Eva with her daughter. Gary Bolick was born and raised in Winston-Salem/Clemmons, NC. Lived and studied in Paris for a year before graduating from Wake Forest. It was at Wake Bolick had the honor of studying under and being mentored by Germaine Bree. Writing A WALKING SHADOW was a true labor of love. When Bolick was living in Paris, he was able to track down a copy of the first ten treatises of Jabir’s “Book of Sixty-Nine Treatises”. Finally, it seemed, studying French was paying off. No English translation existed of Jabir’s work. Bolick could read antiquity’s greatest alchemist in his own words. When Jonas’ shadow splits off and begins to both comfort and mock him it was, as Carl Jung speaks of in “Psychology and Alchemy,” the conscious and unconscious attempting to find balance. Of course a few random events, a couple of love interests and the ever- present vulture flying overhead, helped out. A WALKING SHADOW by Gary Bolick is available wherever books are sold and directly from the publisher at www.unsolicitedpress.com. Master of the Flying Guillotine
Crane-kick: dogma that each violence must be art- fully named poet as warrior as bawd goating around until clamoring for a butting of heads some pretty name worth mating over animal noises exacting martial faith stylized fighting to cleave skulls to dance steps metered, clambering. * The Ariana Principle → The Ariana Solution, reasons Larry * Self-referencing a convex mirror, turns out she had two lilies after all, her bridesmaids all asleep in the bungalow. She played a part-time chef who inspired an axe-murdering chanteuse & this is how transparent all Billy Collins’s poems are, perhaps too easy a poet to dislike. I had to try harder to hate Frost. But back to these flower girls asleep in the blue snow. I remember reading Vikings were really just nice guys, pick up your bar tab, then blood-eagle. The principle is this: the poem’s political dimension plays Candyland like a pampered baby. All entrance, the poem asks no exiting. * If you could cook dinner for any author, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you make? Tennessee Williams keeps coming to mind. I mean, it’s an impossible question as there are so many I’d love to do this for. And of course, I’d make an entire buffet of dishes and drinks pulled from his own plays: Hoppin’ John, strawberry daiquiris, etc. It’d be quite the menu. What scares you the most about the writing process? How do you combat your fears? Revising. As Dorothy Parker once said, “I hate writing. I love having written.” It’s tough to re-ignite that moment on initial inspiration, but, obvious as this next statement may be, I do find that the longer I sit with a piece, the more nooks and crannies I uncover and that in and of itself is a Truth I tell myself over and over to combat those fears. Of course, it also creates a new set of problems: When to Stop, etc. What books are on your nightstand? Currently: A Wrinkle in Time; Out of Oz, A Confederacy of Dunces, Twelve Caesars, The Woman Warrior, and Dragon Country. Where do you get your ideas? What inspires you? Wal-Mart. Kroger. Church. Thanksgiving. A niece’s birthday. Wherever my ear goes, ideas follow. Favorite punctuation mark? Why? I find myself a bit obsessed with the long dash. If I find out why that is, I’ll let you know. What book were you supposed to read in high school, but never did? I read every book, even the ones I hated. Even Silas Marner. What inanimate object would you thank in your acknowledgements? Post-it notes. Why do you write? The first 5 words that come to mind. Go. To learn how to forgive. T.K. LEE is an award-winning member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers, among others. A published writer of Pushcart-nominated fiction, in addition to award-winning poetry, he is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the MFA program at the Mississippi University for Women, in historic Columbus, Mississippi, birthplace of Tennessee Williams.
On October 31, 2018, Unsolicited Press released Michael Murray's debut essay collection WRITING NAKED. The collection is brave, reckoning with self-esteem issues, depression, and addiction.
Our team sat down with Murray for a brief and beloved interview: What literary journeys have you gone on? To be quite honest, hardly any. I don’t read much, which is probably surprising. I read a lot of film critiques and other random stuff. I have a difficult time reading, let alone sitting still for more than five minutes at a time. What is the first book that made you cry? I remember reading the Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls when I was in roughly fourth grade. I stayed up late to finish it and remember waking my mom and dad up in the middle of the night because I was inconsolable. I truly remember my heart hurting for the first time in a way that was completely foreign to me. Another book that devastated me was The Cay by Theodore Taylor. My fifth-grade homeroom teacher Ms. Jones read it to us little by little for a span of a few weeks. She read it with an islander accent and by the end of the book the entire class, including Ms. Jones, was bawling. I’m not sure if we were crying because the book was sad, or because it was so devastating to see how sad Ms. Jones was. Either way, I’ll never forget it. Does writing energize or exhaust you? Writing is completely exhausting for me. I can only write in the morning because it’s something that I look at as “getting out of the way.” So much of my writing, if not all of it, is highly personal, and the process of digging through my mind to remember certain events, feelings, and specific details is, for all intents and purposes, exhausting. What are common traps for aspiring writers? I would say self-doubt, and also being overly confident. Also, booze, women, and drugs. Does a big ego help or hurt writers? I have the lowest self-esteem of most people I know. Never in a million years did I think I’d ever publish anything, let alone secure a book contract. So, who knows. I think both can work. There are some arrogant assholes out there who do really well, and there are modest writers who crush it too. I guess it depends on what type of person you are. Have you ever gotten reader’s block? I always have readers block. I seldom read, but when I find something I like, I binge on it. Right now, it’s Melissa Broder. Did you ever consider writing under a pseudonym? Yes, and then I remind myself that however people interpret my writing is their problem. I say this, but I don’t really feel it yet. I am terrified that my writing will hurt people. I see a shrink and that’s a lot of what we talk about, but whether it’s a tweet, a FB post, or a text message, once I write something, how people react is completely out of my control. “Once the fire’s lit, fuck the match.” Do you think someone could be a writer if they don’t feel emotions strongly? Well, if someone doesn’t feel emotions strongly they’re either in denial or a sociopath and plenty of sociopaths and people in denial write. So, yes? What other authors are you friends with, and how do they help you become a better writer? No one really famous besides Alissa Nutting. I have plenty of friends that are writers, but none of them are technically authors. Reading Alissa’s “Tampa” rattled me because it was one of the most vulgar things I’d ever read, and at the time I was taking her workshop at John Carroll University. I couldn’t believe that this book came out of her head. She caught a lot of shit for that book, and now it’s been hailed as one of nine books to read this summer for women. She knocked it out of the park. I’m terrified to really write with brutal honesty and nakedness, but she truly inspired me. Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book? I think each book will stand alone and will also undoubtedly connect and cohere with what comes before and after them. I also think that I might write one book and be done with it. Who knows. What was the best money you ever spent as a writer? $20 for my submission to [the contest offered by] Unsolicited Press. What authors did you dislike at first but grew into? I think most anyone that I’ve read and didn’t like I stopped reading. What was an early experience where you learned that language had power? Beyond being a child I feel that I always knew language had power, whether I was as aware of it as I am now, I have no idea. I’m terrible at remembering these things. What’s your favorite under-appreciated novel? A Widow for One Year by John Irving. I saw the film “The Door in the Floor” which covers the first third of the novel and had to know how it all ended. John Irving writes dysfunction so well and he’s beyond well-known, but I never hear people talk about this novel. My mom had the book and I plowed through it. It was incredible to me. It made me want to be a writer even more, not so much because of Irving’s style, but because of one of the characters, Ted Cole. He was the garden variety philandering drunk who was tragic and whatever but I adored him. How do you balance making demands on the reader with taking care of the reader? I don’t think I consciously do either, and it’s probably a good thing. As a writer, what would you choose as your mascot/avatar/spirit animal? I wouldn’t, but I am obsessed with emperor penguins and orcas. What do you owe the real people upon whom you base your characters? I don’t write characters, and I feel the only thing that I owe the people that I write about is the truth, which, of course, is subjective. How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have? Somewhere between 1-1,321. What does literary success look like to you? Making enough money to be able to do the things that I like and not be in debt up to my ears. Being able to give an occasional reading where people buy me drinks after and cute co-eds find me mysterious and intriguing. Making into Oprah’s book club and then standing her up for an interview. Having one single person tell me that something I wrote gave them hope. What’s the best way to market your books? Honestly, after one Facebook post I’ve had hundreds of people asking me “how’s the book Murray?” It’s terrifying. I’m not sure I want to market any further than that, if you can even call that marketing. As much as I can’t stand social media it seems to be the most effective platform to market anything. What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book? I don’t research much of anything in regards to my writing. It’s almost completely personal writing. I check facts to cover my ass, that’s about it. How many hours a day do you write? It depends, I usually pick one thing to write about and as soon as I’m finished with that I move on to the next thing. Usually between two and four hours. What period of your life do you find you write about most often? (child, teenager, young adult) Mostly teenager and young adult, but lately I’ve been writing about my present state. If you didn’t write, what would you do for work? And if writing isn't your "day job", what are you currently doing to pay the bills? I’ve worked in restaurants half my life. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I love serving and tending bar. It makes me love people, and it makes me hate people. The restaurant where I currently work is the most well-run place I’ve ever worked, and I can’t imagine working anywhere else. My co-workers are my family. I feel I get paid to hang out with my friends and deal with some very needy people on the side. I seldom dread going to work, and when I do, it’s usually because I’m hung over or because there’s powder on Mt. Hood, or really good surf. What one thing would you give up to become a better writer? I feel the one thing I must give up to become a better writer is alcohol. What is your favorite childhood book? The Giving Tree. Does your family support your career as a writer? As much as they can. My mom is an avid reader, so is my father and step-father. One of my sisters is a writer as well, but she is currently putting that on the back burner. My mom fears that what I write will hurt people from my past, and she’s probably right. She also fears that I’ll air my family’s dirty laundry, but she’s going to have to get over it. My dad is supportive from a distance, and encourages me to write about whatever I want as long as it doesn’t come from a place of anger, and my step-father is supportive in the fact that he has always believe in me and encouraged me to head down this path as a writer.
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If you could cook dinner for any author, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you make?
Well, I’m not much of a cook, but if I had my choice, I’d cook a dinner of chicken Parmesan for Kurt Vonnegut. What scares you the most about the writing process? How do you combat your fears? Boring my readers. As I work through a poem, or a nonfiction story, I always look at it as an imposition on peoples’ time, so I want to keep it interesting, engaging and fresh. There’s nothing worse than having someone set down your work because it’s not very good. I fight through the self-doubt by recalling some of the positive feedback and reviews I’ve received from my readers. I reassures me that my work is relevant and touches people. Who is your biggest literary crush, author or character? Michael Perry, a bestselling Wisconsin writer, musician and storyteller. He’s not only an amazing writer, but he has a great stage presence and is a wonderful humorist. I want nothing more than to be like Mike. What books are on your nightstand? Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn, Margaret Rozga’s poetry, 200 Nights And One Day, Michael Perry, Man at Work, Stephen Anderson’s poetry, In the Garden of Angels and Demons, and a couple of expired Sun Magazines, which I read cover to cover. Where do you get your ideas? What inspires you? Most of my work is inspired by true events. Much of my nonfiction goes back to the people and places of my younger days. My poetry inspiration comes more from contemporary events. The two genres compliment each other nicely. Favorite punctuation mark? Why? Oddly enough, the upside-down exclamation point used in the Spanish language. It tips the readers off that the sentence ends with emphasis. It truly is a better idea! What book were you supposed to read in high school, but never did? The Hobbit. I got halfway through it and never finished. Too many characters and lands to keep track of. I still feel bad about putting down a classic like this and never picking it up again. What inanimate object would you thank in your acknowledgements? The silver 1984 Chevy Cavalier that we rented to get us from Minnesota to California. Why do you write? The first 5 words that come to mind. Go. Because I can’t not write. If you could write an inspirational quote on the mirrors of aspiring writers, what would you write? “You are about to embark on the hardest, most rewarding journey of your life. Don’t be a give-up.” –Jim Landwehr |
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