tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post4408925531932606874..comments2024-03-29T08:58:04.483-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: Bringing Two Worlds TogetherJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-89298922908666923512017-02-20T13:44:12.603-05:002017-02-20T13:44:12.603-05:00Thanks, KM! AWP is a wonderful conference and grea...Thanks, KM! AWP is a wonderful conference and great opportunity--and also a big PITA to get around for anyone with a disability, and in fact, for a lot of folks I know without disabilities. It's so big. It has hundreds and hundreds of panels, thousands of participants, and a huge book fair that fills one entire floor of a massive convention center (and sometimes overflows onto part of another floor). Plus hundreds of offsite readings and events sponsored by publishers, writers organizations, and universities. It's like being injected with pure adrenaline or methedrine--something is constantly going on everywhere you look and there's never any silence. Much of that stimulus is inspiring and valuable, but there's still too much of it all the time. So it's always a challenge for trying to achieve any kind of balance. But there's much of it that I would miss terribly if I didn't go.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-80569871224131585532017-02-20T13:34:40.678-05:002017-02-20T13:34:40.678-05:00Sounds like a wonderful conference and a great opp...Sounds like a wonderful conference and a great opportunity.<br /><br />We need more people like you, successful, recognized writers who can see why both literary and genre fiction has merit.<br /><br />Congratulations on the roll-out of that book of unique poetry.<br /><br />KM Rockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973749764907859829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-76328961898158871352017-02-20T13:08:10.171-05:002017-02-20T13:08:10.171-05:00Thanks, Margaret!
Warren, I've never quite fi...Thanks, Margaret!<br /><br />Warren, I've never quite figured out the convoluted reasoning by which many literary types scorn genre fiction (though they do see mysteries as marginally more literarily respectable than sff, westerns, horror, or (gasp!) romance).Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-75727558157666213132017-02-20T11:31:07.731-05:002017-02-20T11:31:07.731-05:00I've always wondered how literary types explai...I've always wondered how literary types explain why established literary writers write mysteries. Are they slumming?Warren Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789270258599769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-17017804802627521732017-02-20T11:08:16.401-05:002017-02-20T11:08:16.401-05:00Glad you survived your trip and meeting with stori...Glad you survived your trip and meeting with stories to tell.Margaret S. Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07979191318652199350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-17917253198641156572017-02-20T11:00:33.079-05:002017-02-20T11:00:33.079-05:00Gloria, it is wonderful, primarily because it'...Gloria, it is wonderful, primarily because it's often the only time I get to see some people I dearly love, but also because it's so stimulating, offering new ideas and concepts. But it's also become truly overwhelming and difficult to navigate as it's become so huge. It takes a tremendous toll on me physically, and our disability caucus has real problems getting AWP to make it really accessible in any meaningful way. Plus, the politics is much worse than I find in the crime fiction community. I've taken to swearing each one is my last, and then someone puts me on a panel that makes or my caucuses need something from me, and I give in and go.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-47311315840885969602017-02-20T10:55:56.069-05:002017-02-20T10:55:56.069-05:00Grace, as huge as AWP is, I can't walk from on...Grace, as huge as AWP is, I can't walk from one place to another without being stopped by people I know. Art will tell you that I had sat at a table to rest from one of the long walks between events, and first one, then another of my lit friends had come up--the head of a national literary organization and the editor of a prestigious lit journal--before Art made his own presence known behind me. You would think that, with those numbers, I could move about the huge convention center pretty anonymously, but it just doesn't work out that way, for some reason.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-5538518393817949472017-02-20T10:51:00.038-05:002017-02-20T10:51:00.038-05:00Art, it was lovely to have the chance to spend som...Art, it was lovely to have the chance to spend some time together. A welcome respite in the intense atmosphere of AWP.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-26752642444333852442017-02-20T10:10:32.580-05:002017-02-20T10:10:32.580-05:00What a wonderful conference that must have been, L...What a wonderful conference that must have been, Linda. I've always been a reader of literary fiction as well as mysteries. Many mysteries are as much literary as mysteries. I also write poetry as well as mysteries, too, and some short stories that are not mysteries. I'm working <br />slowly on a mixture of memoir and memorial for my eighteen year old son who died of cancer. It will include the poems I've written for him each year since he died in 1980.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-5307595341864506512017-02-20T09:32:27.566-05:002017-02-20T09:32:27.566-05:00It is always a pleasure when you can bring two of ...It is always a pleasure when you can bring two of your worlds together. I'm glad that you were able to do that. <br /><br />That was some conference with 17,000 people. Did you ever pass the same person twice? Grace Toppinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10291304815273486038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-83462291478394435822017-02-20T08:38:55.996-05:002017-02-20T08:38:55.996-05:00It was great seeing you there—and thanks for the s...It was great seeing you there—and thanks for the shout-out here! Enjoyed your post and AWP itself as well. And congrats again on the new anthology!<br />Art Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02409008167752619352noreply@blogger.com