Ask the Author: Stuart Ross

“I welcome questions about my books, my processes, my writing life. I've got 13 book projects on the go, though, so sometimes I get a little busy…” Stuart Ross

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Stuart Ross By asking him the best way to congratulate him! Thank you!

(Also, bribing the judges is a sweet, indirect way to offer congratulations.)
Stuart Ross Vladimir and Estragon. I can think of no other fictional couples.
Stuart Ross Read ten or twenty or thirty times more than you write. Read very broadly. Think of the blank page as a laboratory, and don't worry about finding your "voice." But if you do think you've found your "voice," do everything possible to undercut it.
Stuart Ross My most recent book is Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer (Anvil Press, 2015). It's a follow-up to the 2005 book Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Both books gather together my columns and short articles and rants about life in the world of small-press or micro-press publishing. The first volume was very well-received and widely reviewed, so my publisher and I thought it was time for another installment.
Stuart Ross Business attire = bathrobe.
Stuart Ross 3 poetry collections, 3 novels, a collaborative book-length poem, a collaborative poetry sequence, a book of essays, a memoir, a translation, and some collaborations with visual artists.
Stuart Ross A lot of things inspire me, but most of all reading the works of exciting, adventurous, fearless, confusing authors.
Stuart Ross I don't believe in writer's block.

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