Photo by Sally Carpenter I love the pic (above). Made me rethink self-publishing whereby I could chose a cover for my next novel....hmmm. The house in the photo is my mother's abandoned family homestead. So you see, when I say humble beginnings... I REALLY mean humble beginnings! Don't get me wrong - I'm well aware of my privileges & my challenges. What's the point, you ask? See, over the weekend, I was chatting with a writer-friend about a recent book launch we attended. We both noticed that lately writers keep emphasizing their connections to hard times & the rural poor, & THE DISENFRANCHISED... (oh right, like using words such as disenfranchised isn't a sign of privilege) One of these confessions came from a white, university-educated guy who grew up in an urban, affluent family & whose main connection to poverty was a paid trip to get in touch with & help the needy in poor countries. Seriously? What IS that all about? Must writers look back at every miserable obstacle & look equally miserable as a precursor to success? Source: Grumpy Cat Can we not BE more creative? Or, is it that age-old stereotype that without poverty & hardship, a writer couldn't possibly dip into the well of human dimension? Last I heard, Stephen King's riches are not hindering his creativity, nor his characters' dimensions. concluding thoughts
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Thanks for connecting with me on Twitter. It's a beautiful picture for a book cover, especially if your write an historical novel. Have no idea who some authors pretend to have poor childhood. Most readers, including me, judge a book by its content, not by the author's history. Best wishes with your novels and I still have to look around what is Tartan Frog.
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Thanks very much, Giora.
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Giora
4/5/2013 04:35:54 am
Thanks. I just read on Wikipedia that Tartan is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. I guess that is the interweaving. And I submbitted to get notified.
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Hi Giora,
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