Consumed

This book is for the many people who have written me over the years asking how to be a writer, how to start, how to get an agent, how to get published, how to persevere, who to hang out with, how to get a social media following (the last in particular I so would not know).

I’m not a teacher and, even if I were, I’m not sure writing can be taught. I have, however, been a self-supporting, working writer for 30 years.

Part memoir, part guidebook, CONSUMED is an eccentric gathering of reflections that have emerged during that time on process, craft, vocation, and the avoidance of despair.

As Kafka said: “There is abundant hope—but there is none for us.”

There is none for us but maybe there’ll be some for the next people who come along, so let’s keep going for them.