A Writer Prepares

Lawrence Block

ISBN 10: 1788580435 / ISBN 13: 9781788580434

Published by Short, Scary Tales - SST Publications, 2021

About this Item

1st printing. Limited edition #355 of 400.

Seller Inventory # 001089

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Writer Prepares
• Publisher: Short, Scary Tales - SST Publications
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788580435
• ISBN 13: 9781788580434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Pailler, Jeremy
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A Writer Prepares, an examination of the first quarter century of a writer's life, is the work of two writers. There's the middle-aged fellow who wrote about half of it at a blistering pace in 1994, and there's the octogenarian who finished the job another quarter century later. The older fellow brought less raw energy to the task, and his memory is a long way from infallible, but one can only hope he's offset these losses with a slight edge in judgment, in perspective, in maturity. (I was about to add wisdom, but that might be a bridge too far.) I suspect this book's natural audience consists largely of those of you who are already enthusiastic readers of my work. And it seems likely that the book will get a favorable reception from persons who are somewhere in the process of finding themselves as writers. But I'm happy to let the book find its true audience. A very comforting aspect of publishing A Writer Prepares now rather than twenty-five years ago is that I'm so much less invested in its reception.