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the book started as just a short story that I wrote
Kinda on a whim because I was listening to Nirvana one afternoon there's really
nothing more complicated
to it than that and I
wrote the story and my friends my friends liked it and a friend of mine who is an
editor to uh a journal decided to publish that
original story in her journal called press one
and I started writing more about the characters and I kept asking more
questions about them
and I and I did this for about nine months and ended up with
seven or eight stories and I'm I kept calling them
my group of linear stories
about the same people and my friend said
eventually you have to admit that you're writing a novel and I didn't really want
to do that I felt I want to admit that you're writing a novel
I you've committed to something and I didn't know that I wanted to commit to a
bit of course I was doing it all along
I and eventually I'd did commit to it and wrote it all the way through to the
finish
a few my friends read it I revised it
on that took about nine months to a year
of revisions and I was about to start the great agent search and I had
listed agents that that I wanted to submit to I had a list publishers
that I wanted to send the book to
and it was actually invented Arcadia where a
Lee Byrd and Bobby Byrd who are the
the owners of Cinco puntos press and Lee Byrd
is a Arcadia or Beaver College I'm sorry alumna
came to campus and I went to there and they're celebrating
I beauty is a verb which is a anthology
of poetry by disable poets were about disability
and they came here to throw a big event was a wonderful that I happen to met
Lee and we're talking and we connected and I was telling her that I was about
to start sending out the manuscript and she said send it to me
and I did an about three months later other people at Cinco puntos had read
it
and and they decided that they wanted it and I couldn't be happier with the
publisher like that I thought
that I would have to go to an agent to get a publisher like that i've
fortunately skipped
the middleman and we edited it
together I'm thrilled with waking up