Thomas asked Kent Anderson:

Wondering when Green Sun might come out and who will publish it since Don quit the publishing business awhile back? thanks tom

Kent Anderson I don't know who's going to publish it. I finished Green Sun six months ago, on July 28th, but parted ways with my agent - for the second time - almost two years ago. So the book is out knocking on doors for an agent now. Meanwhile, I've started on Hanson #4, and it seems to be moving along better than I could have imagined, which is good since I don't have another 20 years to work on it. But having another book I'm responsible for makes it easier to be patient (cuts the anxiety a little) trying to sell Hanson #3, Green Sun.

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Paul It is stunning to think that publishers would not be lining up to get this book. I have been waiting anxiously for years since learning that Green Sun ...more
Apr 21, 2016 07:10PM · flag

Kent Anderson Well, thank you Paul, really, for telling me that. It's been a long time since Night Dogs, no one noticed my French collection, in this country, when Well, thank you Paul, really, for telling me that. It's been a long time since Night Dogs, no one noticed my French collection, in this country, when it came out in 2013, and not many people in the publishing world have ever heard of me. Green Sun is the book I wanted to write - finally - and it's as good as I could write it. That's what I think most of the time, though I still have days when I wonder if it's gibberish or, worse, mediocre junk. But I'm getting used to the idea that no one will publish it unless I get a couple hundred copies printed up to give away. Eh, somebody will publish it, anything could happen, I could get discovered, they could make a tv show about Hanson, give me a bunch of money, with would be fun. And though I've been working to hustle GS, I need to work on the next book which now I've decided should be a sort of memoir with horses, and I could digress all I wanted to, about anything (an editor could always cut it down) but keep drifting back to "The Story of Dusky," his history, now, then back out into the past. I'm moving this Saturday from my loft in Santa Fe up to a little town called Abiquiu, NM (known by some people as the place that the artist Georgia O'Keeffe lived later in her life and painted all those desert landscapes. Dusky and I are gonna live on a horse ranch - Turtle Ranch - on 70+ acres along the Chama River where we can ride, and then across the little hiway 84 where we can ride on endless miles of Santa Fe National Forest. I don't know how I got so involved with horses, I was never interested in horses, I don't define myself as a horse-person, but I'm glad it happened. I lucked out on this deal. I'll try to post a google map of the place. Oh yeah, at the moment Green Sun is with Mulholland Books, they've had it six weeks now, since the writer James Patterson, who admired Night Dogs, read the manuscript and gave it to Mulholland. Mr. Patterson had a few quibbles with Green Sun, but man, he took the time to read it and then passed it on the Mulholland. And the first chapter of the ms of GS is gonna be printed in this year's NoirCon catalogue, for which I'm very grateful to Lou Boxer, who's been honchoing the NoirCon for quite some time now. Yeah, it'll get published eventually and I won't have to do a vanity press edition. I'm not even gonna read all what I just wrote here, so goodnight, and thank you again, Paul. ...more
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