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There is no time to waste.
The polluting, resource-degrading plant is set to explode. Eco-heroine Inez Wick has only minutes to escape. As she traverses the dark recesses of the dirty plant, she flashes back to a younger self, sixteen.
Her father had just died in an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, and she had just broken up with her boyfriend. She remembers oily ocean water and flames, her footprints in the sand filling with black water. Flames were chasing her.
They were jumping from one oily footprint to the next, up the beach after her. Snapping back to the present, she must get out of the plant. The exploits of Inez Wick could not end, just now. Part of my job as an instructor of Environmental Science, English, and Literature is to seek publication, make a name for myself that the school can use to attract students.
Yet, the pressure and desire exist to see my work published, to share my stories with a larger audience than my writers group and selfishly, make a buck or two. The struggle is that, and perhaps these are my personal feelings and insecurities, self-publication is not respected in academia. The science community believes in peer-review, a necessary process that reduces error and should prevent faulty method and fringe findings from muddying the theoretical waters. Just as, the literary community has trusted editors and publishers to protect and uphold the standards of canonical quality.
I believe, however, that entertainment, enjoyment, and literary quality can be found outside those traditional gatekeepers. I wholeheartedly believe in the editor-writer process that was perfected by the publishing industry. I enjoy the back and forth, the feedback-revision process, that hones a story into a great read. I, The Twin Cities are better having gone through the editorial process. The editors pushed me to cut sections that diluted the action or obscured the plot, and they asked for expanded scenes and closer attention to setting.
Having experienced the transformative power of the editorial and revision process, I sought to include it in the process of self-publishing The Many Lives of Inez Wick.
I knew that I would need to commission artwork for the cover. Posted by Beth Solheim at 6: The red LCD display quickly counts down. I also did some pre-release marketing. He writes about books, stories, movies, and his experiences as an adjunct instructor of English, Literature, and Environmental Science on his blog: I wish to be contacted with the results of the investigation. Newer Post Older Post Home.
While researching short story collections, I discovered two trends that I admired. I saw that these books functioned in two worlds: I wanted to follow their example. Secondly, I noticed that most collections include previously published short stories.
Sometimes you just have to throw some support to a local author and a former fellow book blogger. Posted by Joe on Thursday, December 09, Aaron Wilson , Bop Lipski.
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Thanks again, Aaron December 10, at 6: Newer Post Older Post Home. I also blog at Nerds of a Feather. Alanya to Alanya Review: Ink and Steel Review: