By Shawn Coyne
Published: June 1, 2012
Like everyone else, I love a great “origin story.” Especially since I’m in the middle of one myself (Black Irish Books).
These kinds of stories focus on the creation of something . . . be it a company (The Social Network), a pop star (The Idolmaker), an investigation that leads to a President’s resignation (All the President’s Men) or even the act of not creating something (The Shining).
So for fun, I thought I’d give you two book publishing creation stories.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I represent both of the writers in these stories. I believe in their work and I am biased.
In October of 2009 (that’s right . . . almost three years ago), my friend Trena Keating emailed me. Like me, she’s a former publisher/editor in chief turned literary agent (check out www.keatingliterary.com).
She wrote to tell me about a friend of hers who worked at The Atlantic. He recommended she read a novel written by one of his colleagues. She read a chunk of it and realized it wasn’t her thing. But she thought that the writer had a certain something and she thought his book was in my arena.
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That is sooooooo funny!!!!!
simply hilarious!
Ha, true enough some days…
Love it!
Oh my god!
I read Writing Wednesdays!
I don’t do the work!!!
Luckily the video was only for a minute.
See you next week, bye-bye!
Yup, been there!
Only thing that saves me is having a list, where I can see it, of things I can do on days like that. Even little stuff can get things rolling.
But damn funny!
Great! I feel guilty about not working just WATCHING this. And I have the same bath tub: another gateway to procrastination…
Priceless.
HER resistance triggered MY resistance…and now I’m going to go make myself a snack, thankyouverymuch.
Oh !@#$. Carlin’s right. The only thing that saves me on days like this (read most days) is a list.