Last summer I posted on a poker forum as part of a kind of gonzo journalist assignment and would start threads that got 10,000 to 45,000 views, hundreds of replies. I was just having fun. But getting that kind of viewership is a heavy burden. No one exactly knows how life goes, but for me it is all about laying low.
I am sure of only one thing. Stories are pouring out of me right now like never before. My agent did not know what she was getting into, when she took me on. But she takes everything on faith. I am one of two authors she just can't seem to place with any publisher (she repped Barbara Boxer for her recently announced memoir).
Sometimes I suspect that because Arisugawa Park is so ambitious (though mechanical, one editor said in an "easy pass") it is creating a legend. What better life than that of a professional writer, whose creative output is valued by cognoscenti?
I already have an idea for the next book, it will be set on a small island I know very well and mimic Cannery Row in ambition.
Damon Shulenberger
I am sure of only one thing. Stories are pouring out of me right now like never before. My agent did not know what she was getting into, when she took me on. But she takes everything on faith. I am one of two authors she just can't seem to place with any publisher (she repped Barbara Boxer for her recently announced memoir).
Sometimes I suspect that because Arisugawa Park is so ambitious (though mechanical, one editor said in an "easy pass") it is creating a legend. What better life than that of a professional writer, whose creative output is valued by cognoscenti?
I already have an idea for the next book, it will be set on a small island I know very well and mimic Cannery Row in ambition.
Damon Shulenberger
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