Letter2 - The Monday Morning Memo

Wow. Bruce's book, Bo's Cafe, not only got published but is being inventoried by Wal-Mart.

Writing a book is hard.
Getting it published is a miracle.
Achieving distribution is The Impossible Dream
but our man Bruce got it done.

Perhaps we can get Bruce to tell us the secrets of his success at the Wizard Academy Writers Conference May 19-20. (I haven't invited Bruce yet, but I will. Bruce are you reading this?)

By the way, The Full Plate Diet, written by a trio of Wizard Academy alumni, moved up to Number 4 on the New York Times bestsellers list last week. And because it's a bestseller, Amazon has it discounted from $20 all the way down to $10.97. Aroooooo!

“The safety-valve of all speculation is: It might be so. And so long as that might remains, a variable deeply understood, then speculation does not easily become dogma, but remains the fluid creative thing it might be. Thus, a valid painter, letting color and line, observed, sift into his eyes, up the nerve trunks, and mix well with his experience before it flows down his hand to the canvas, has made his painting say, ‘It might be so.’ Perhaps his critic, being not so honest and not so wise, will say, ‘It is not so. The picture is damned.’ If this critic could say, ‘It is not so with me, but that might be because my mind and experience are not identical with those of the painter,’ that critic would be a better critic for it, just as the painter is a better painter for knowing he himself is in the pigment.”

- John Steinbeck, Sea of Cortez, p. 265, (1941)

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