It’s time for the weekly update on how I’m doing with the writing of my forthcoming book, “Confessions Of A Spiteful Writer.”
I’m not nearly as far as I hoped I would be. I’m just in the middle of chapter ten, which is about being a freelance writer in New York City and the start of my fanzine, fishwrap. This chapter spans August of 1993 to March of 1994.
It’s going a lot slower than I had hoped, and I may take a week or two off from the blog next month and devote most of that time to just writing the book. The blog keeps me so busy, that even taking a couple days off a week doesn’t help me a whole lot. As always, we’ll just play it by ear and see what happens week by week!
I posted my weekly YouTube video which is a little bit of a companion to the book and if you want to see this week’s video, just click here or on the picture above to see this episode which is the third part of me talking about my favorite issue of fishwrap, the aforementioned fanzine I published for seven years while living in New York City.
This episode I’m talking about the oral history I wrote about the early days of Rolling Stone magazine and the reaction I got including replies from Rolling Stone editor, Jann Wenner and film writer and director Cameron Crowe who started his career at Rolling Stone.
Tomorrow and Saturday, I’ll be posting “Best of MBIP” links on Twitter and facecrack, so check those out if you follow me on either one or both of those social media platforms.
Below are three teaser paragraphs from Chapter Five of, “Confessions Of A Spiteful Writer.”
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Chapter Five: 1990 - People of Peoria Magazine: The First Issue
As expected, when the issue was distributed around town, we got a ton of promotion from the morning radio shows, they all talked about it and I was a guest on all of the shows. We also got written up in the Peoria Journal Star, which delighted me because the magazine was triggered out of spite to that cunt of an editor who told me that, “You just don’t walk in off the street and write for the Peoria Journal Star.” I loved the fact that she would see this and it would probably bug the living shit out of her!
After a couple weeks, I got a congratulatory phone call from the Illinois News Service telling me that they had pretty much sold all of the issues. The first issue of People of Peoria was a bona-fide success story!
Now we had to do it all over again, but this time we only had about a month to do it in! I didn’t have long to dwell on our success, I had to get to work on the next issue!
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We’ll have a new MBIP Sunday Links blog here on this coming Sunday, September 1, so I’ll see you all then!
Now I have to get back to finish writing Chapter Ten and hopefully eleven!
See you all, Sunday and on social media tomorrow and Saturday!
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Related Posts: Confessions Of A Spiteful Writer: Part One, Two, Three. Four, and Five.