Many of the authors I’ve written about embraced the entry, shared my post on social media, even put a link to the entry up on their website. Some books were new, other books older, some even forgotten. Other writers, from smaller presses, face a DIY approach and could use all the help they could get. Some of the collections I read this year were brand-new releases from large presses, authors who boasted a team of marketing and public relations people to promote their book, score reviews, make sure the right people read it at the right time. I wanted to be a part of the literary community in a way I’d never been, in a way perhaps nobody else had been, either.Ĭoming in close second to my own needs is literary citizenship, me giving something to authors for what they’ve given me. I wanted to improve my writing by being a more well informed reader. I wanted to be able to discern trends, styles, and themes in short stories and collections, understand what people did, what they do, what the difference is. As the person in front of the classroom, I wanted to be the person who read a collection first, heard of an author first, had insight-professing. I wanted to get to the books that I’d been collecting for twenty years.
I started this blog to become a better reader, professor, critic, and friend, improving myself, I’ve hoped, with every entry, with every story I read, every point I make.
The main mission has been, is, and always will be me reading for me. I’d like to intro with the sub-mission of Stor圓66: literary citizenship.
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