Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.
First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.
In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their personal history and with the present in which they are trying to make their way. So that the books are simultaneously about public and interior events. And I am having a great time getting confused and crazed writing about them.
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.
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