Re: list member's story out!

From: Nalo Hopkinson (bl213@FREENET.TORONTO.ON.CA)
Date: Wed Jul 02 1997 - 15:00:28 PDT


NH: :) Thank you, Sean. Deb jitters as much as anything else. And I'm
very aware that I myself don't like everything I read that has made it
onto the booksellers' shelves.

-nalo

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Sean Johnston wrote:

> >NH: Thanks, Maryelizabeth. And yes, you got your birds right. This was
> >my first major sale, so I'm facing comments from the public with fear and
> >trepidation.
> >
> >-nalo
> >
>
> I'm not sure why fear, Nalo. At the slight risk of speaking out of turn, I
> think if the story said what you wanted it to say and somebody bought it,
> it's obviously a success (hopefully the editor who bought it has some
> modicum of good judgment).
>
> -Sean
>

"He walked so far/On stilts of songs, of masqueraded story, that the
stars/Were near."
                -Kamau Brathwaite, "Jou'vert"



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