The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist

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263 Abbott and Costello, 3 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein , 3 academia: and its effects on writing , 214–215 Addonizio, Kim, 35 adjunct teaching positions. See teaching positions advance review copies, 133; and small presses, 97 advice: asking for when no longer a student, 73–74 After the Workshop (McNally), 123–124, 182 Agent Query (website), 109 agents, 106–116; and auctions, 107–108; and author-agent agreements, 113–114; and author ’s career path, 108; and book contracts, 107; as buffer between author and editor, 108; and fee, 108–109; and finding one, 109–111; need for one, 109; and poetry, 109; and qualifications to be one, 112–113; reading literary magazines, 84; and relationship with editors, 107; and short story collections, 109; and size of agency, 112; terminating relationship with, 113–116; unhappy with, 113–116; what they do, 106–109 Akashic, 133 Alaska Quarterly Review, 81 Albom, Mitch, 148 alcohol. See vices Alex Meets Zorba (DeMaio), 95 Alexie, Sherman, 23 Algonquin Books, 96–97, 133 Alien, 36 All about Eve, 45 All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy), 133 Allen, Edward, 214 Almost Archer Sisters (Gabriele), 223 alumni magazines: as publicity tool, 185 American Idol, 171 American Salvage (Campbell), 102 America’s Report Card (McNally), 22, 101, 178, 182, 187 Angell, Roger, 19 Anna, Washing (Genoways), 199 anthologies, 81 Appalachian State University, 15 Apprentice, 207 ARC. See advance review copies Are You a Bromide? (Burgess), 180 Art of Fiction (Gardner), 26 articles: writing for magazines and newspapers, 182–183 Associated Writing Programs, 33, 38, 102, 126, 158, 159, 163–164, 176; short fiction contest, 122, 204 Atlantic, 15, 80 Atwood, Margaret, 242 AWP. See Associated Writing Programs Bachelor of Arts: in creative writing , 35–36; in English with creative writing concentration, 33–35 Bachelor of Fine Arts: in creative writing, 37 Bad Behavior (Gaitskill), 39 Baggott, Julianna, 1 Bailey, Blake, 231 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Index Baldwin, James, 135, 199 Ballard, J. G., 11 Banks, Melissa, 117 Barnes and Noble, 97, 168, 174 Barnhardt, Wilton, 42, 168 Barrett, Lynne, 166 Bartelby, 215 Barth, John, 228, 236 Barton, Charles, 3 Barton Fink, 249 Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing (Bernstein), 102–103 Bathanti, Joseph, 15 Bausch, Richard, 125 Baxter, Charles, 122 Beattie, Ann, 39, 228 Beautiful Downtown Burbank (blog), 156 Becker, Geoffrey, 217 Bell, Madison Smartt, 30, 40 Bellow, Saul, 214 Bernhardt, William, 168 Bernstein, Arnie, 102–103 Best American Mystery Stories, 81, 82 Best American Poetry, 81 Best American Short Stories, 81, 104, 117 Betamax, 140 BFA. See Bachelor of Fine Arts Birds of America (Moore), 134 “Blackberry Winter” (Warren), 229 blogs and blogging, 146–147, 154– 157, 228 Blue Angel (Prose), 214 blurbs, 180–181 Bonzo Goes to College, 32 book festivals, 126–127, 166–167 Book of Ralph (McNally), 21, 80, 118, 119, 148, 174–175, 187 book reviews: and how to deal with them, 128–131; in mainstream press, 128; on Amazon, 129–130, 228; on blogs, 130–131; writing, 182, 233 book sales: and myth of sales figures , 132–134 Book Sense 76, 161 book signings: finding odd venues for, 174–175. See also bookstores book tours: announcements on website, 146; in-home, 178; and small presses, 97–98 book trailer, 178 BookExpo, 104, 162 Booklist, 99 booksellers: getting to know, 160–162 bookstores: signings in, 168–171 Borders, 174 Bourjaily, Vance, 31 Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 15, 47, 63, 145, 242 Bradbury, Ray, 36, 43, 93 Bradbury Chronicles (Weller), 93 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference: scholarships, 85 Bridge of Sand (Burroway), 224 Bright Forever (Martin), 222 Brod, Max, 137 Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), 82 Brown, Amy Knox, 35, 80 Bukowski, Charles, 231 Bundy, Ted, 58 Burgess, Gelett, 180 Burnham, Chris, 165 Burroway, Janet, 224 Caldwell, Erskine, xiii, 204 California State University–Chico, 34 Call It Experience (Caldwell), xiii Campbell, Bonnie Jo, 102 Canin, Ethan, 39, 134 Canty, Kevin, 153 Index 265 Capote, Truman, 93, 135 career path, 19–22 careerism, 20 Carl Djerassi fellowship: awarded by Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing, 21 Carlson, Ron, 224 Carver, Holly, 204, 224 Carver, Raymond, 34, 88, 179, 228, 229, 230 Cathedral (Carver), 179 Cather, Willa, 164 Cat’s Cradle (Vonnegut), 228 Chabon, Michael, 214 chance. See luck Chaon, Dan, 158 Chaplin, Charlie, 3 Chappell, Fred, 160 Chase, Joan, 40 Chattahoochee Review, 84 Chayefsky, Paddy, vi Cheever, John, 30, 74, 231–232 Chelsea, 84 Chercover, Sean, 121 Chicago Bulls, 219 Chicago Public Radio, 188 Chicago Reader, 156, 174 Chicago...