Re: Path to Publication - New Blog, ScriptFrenzy, Cool Hat

[ClintonBooks]

Very cool.  If ever you want to send something along to the shop, please feel free to do so. This Friday, Lisa Scottoline will be at the Clinton Book Shop. Lisa has a column in the Phila Inquirer. Where exactly are you located?

[SamProof]

I'm in Los Angeles these days.

I do have a bunch of zines, maybe we can work something out.

[SamProof]

Very cool, thanks for the response and insight from the shop owner side of things.

Out of curiosity with Maryann, is she a local writer in your area. How did her book come to your shop?

[ClintonBooks]

Hey SamProof:

Sorry about the confusion. Maryann is a resident of a town that is not too far from Clinton. As the shop has been around for 30+ years, it has built a solid reutation. I assume that is what brought her to us. She was and I believe still is a real estate agent; however, I'm sure with a manuscript due for her second novel by the end of 2008 that she is a busy woman.

Do you have any work published ?

[SamProof]

That's kind of what I expected to hear. Very cool.

I wrote a couple of pieces for the Philadelphia inquirer, had some poetry published in local lit mags, several internet publications (poetry, articles and columns) and some minor self publishing (hence the zine video).