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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:44:07 -0400
Trying to write something for children myself, I'm now way more sympathetic to authors needing time than I used to be. I'm also now friendly with a number of children's book authors and so can better imagine how uncomfortable it could be for one of them to read about themselves here
(which is why I mentioned Ursula Nordstrom who, dead or alive, from the evidence in Dear Genuis and those who wrote me privately to say she haunts them still, seems to have had a strong enough ego to not care). But for most writers, how scary to worry that your later books will never measure up to those early ones that made such splashes.
That said, I will now mention an author I've been on the lookout for. This is Richard Mosher whose Zazoo was so hauntingly lovely that I do very much hope to see more from him one day.
Monica
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:44:07 -0400
Trying to write something for children myself, I'm now way more sympathetic to authors needing time than I used to be. I'm also now friendly with a number of children's book authors and so can better imagine how uncomfortable it could be for one of them to read about themselves here
(which is why I mentioned Ursula Nordstrom who, dead or alive, from the evidence in Dear Genuis and those who wrote me privately to say she haunts them still, seems to have had a strong enough ego to not care). But for most writers, how scary to worry that your later books will never measure up to those early ones that made such splashes.
That said, I will now mention an author I've been on the lookout for. This is Richard Mosher whose Zazoo was so hauntingly lovely that I do very much hope to see more from him one day.
Monica
-- Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at gmail.comReceived on Thu 13 Oct 2005 11:44:07 AM CDT
