‘Boxer Shorts
Being somewhat distracted recently, I’ve forgotten to mention a few pieces of good news. One is that I’m in print again! Only this time it’s some of my writing. w00+! A friend of mine, K.A. Thompson (Thumper on the Soapbox), has started a publishing company, Inkblot Books (such a cool name!). For her first project, she collected submissions from fellow ‘boxers and created the book ‘Boxer Shorts. I have two pieces in there. Unfortunately it isn’t anything new if you’ve read my other posts here. I wanted to so something just for the book, but I couldn’t get my head in wrapped around it before the deadline. Regardless, even though it’s a so-called “vanity print”, it’s going to be great to have something I’ve written published. I’m especially excited to see what the other monkeys have submitted. There are some very talented writers in that bunch.
So what are you waiting for? Order one. Or three.
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June 20th, 2003 at 5:27 pm
Thumper
Ahhhh… it’s not a vanity print. No one paid to be published in the anthology, and not everyone who submitted made it! So those of you who have work appearing in Boxer Shorts are there by merit. Yay everyone
Thanks for the shour out… mebbe we’ll get a couple extra orders from it!
June 20th, 2003 at 5:56 pm
Good point
Very good point! I didn’t mean to imply at all that it wasn’t quality stuff. Especially knowing who’s in it. I also had a misconception of what a vanity print was. I forgot about the author paying to get in part.
I guess I still have a hard time dealing with “doing good”. It was the same thing when I had my two images of Monroe Ave published in Second Story; I found myself downplaying it. I got psyched about it on here, but I was saying crap like “but it’s just a small book” when I would talk to people about it. I wasn’t complaining; I was trying to make it seem less than what it was. I know I deserve success, but there’s still a part of me that doesn’t know what to do with it.
Heh. Didn’t expect this to be a therapy session. Thanks, Thumper!