So New Directions finally announced its shortlist for its novel contest, and The Children’s Crusade wasn’t on it. I’m not overly surprised, but it would’ve been nice. I guess I’ve never pursued real publication seriously, and I’m about as far from the publishing world as you can get. They wouldn’t know what to do with me, y’know? But I love writing. I’ve got a huge backlog of material waiting to upload into new paperbacks, which, lately, I was kind of holding off on in the absurd case it might hurt my chances. While also releasing that twentieth anniversary edition of that one book (the physical copy of which I finally got in the mail!)…
It’s cool. In years past losing out on things like this put me in a terrible funk. I’m going to try not to let that happen. We’ll see!
The reward here was having written it. And knowing I’ve got plenty left in the tank.
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