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A package from Copper Canyon Press came for me. I imagined two improbable scenarios.
(1) I had somehow sent something to them, then forgotten about it, and now they were publishing it--or no: someone else had, and now I was getting a copy of the collection or whatever that it was in.
(2) Someone had bought me a present.
It was neither of those. Inside the package was a magazine-seeming thing, and an envelope with a note: "Thank you so much for your kind words about Night Sky with Exit Wounds...
(1) I had somehow sent something to them, then forgotten about it, and now they were publishing it--or no: someone else had, and now I was getting a copy of the collection or whatever that it was in.
(2) Someone had bought me a present.
It was neither of those. Inside the package was a magazine-seeming thing, and an envelope with a note: "Thank you so much for your kind words about Night Sky with Exit Wounds...
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CarolineFromConcord
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Jan 31, 2020 04:07AM
Beautiful poem. Deep. Makes me think of an interesting novel I am reading, FF, "Forest Dark."
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CarolineFromConcord wrote: "Beautiful poem. Deep. Makes me think of an interesting novel I am reading, FF, "Forest Dark.""That's a very evocative title--I'll look forward to hearing about it.
How delightful for them to make that kind of connection with you!Also, I'm adding Rollins to my reading list! That's a knockout excerpt.
Seriously! They've earned another sale--partly due to the brilliance of the excerpt, but partly from the reaching out.
