Most writers want to be authors, not all, but most. They spend their time bent over their keyboard at all hours of the night trying to achieve the prestige of authorhood. Many writers never will become published authors, some will. We ponder this question: Are writers today so consumed with becoming the almight author that the writing has lost it's integrity to some degree? We think so. On the other side of the coin this question: Do authors today forget the hard work, rejection letters from publishers, and hours upon hours of time that it took them before the princess kissed the frog and turned him into a prince... er ummmm author? We think so. Our purpose here is not to criticize published authors but to bring back into light the lost hero of authorhood: the writing.
So writers, lets get pen to paper and write for the art and form of expression it is and is meant to be. Let's not dwell on what we would like to achieve or the time limit we want to achieve it in. There isn't anything wrong with having the goal of authorhood, but if the only reason you want to write is to become accredited and respected for your work, maybe you examine what motivates you and much value you put on your work. We are simply defending the written word in it's purest form, untarnished by the monetary and social rewards that come with being published.
Oh and before those of you wannabe's start crying and trying to send us hate mail we suggest you calm down, take a breath, and actually try reading the slop you've created.
Author people! If you are going to bother spending all that time and (alleged) brain power on writing a novel why not try a story line that can actually interest people? How about not using all the big words and coffee house bulls**t. You don't have to be dull nimwits do you? Why bother doing "IT" if you aren't actually going to do something worth reading?
If you can muster up the mental attention go ahead and read a couple of interviews we got to do with some writers who do it right.
We had an exhilerating time talking to author Anna Kavanaugh who's written whoppers to the likes of "Beneath The Paper Truss" and "The Bridemaker's Son" and some more, and she's got a new book coming out November 08 called "The Cord of Callows." We got a chance to grill her good. (So you don't get confused in the head we talked to her a while back when she was working on a script for a movie production co. that was making a flick based on Cord of Callows. We hear that's off though and couldn't be more excited. The last thing we need is another book hijacking by Hollywood.)
We also got the chance to rake over Maria Goodrich who gave us some straight shootin about the publishing biz and a lot of the crap going on in it today. We wanted to know why the publishing industry has allowed the disgustingly perverse breakdown of integrity in books making it the shelves, and what really happens to these writers who become authors by being published, and then turn into literary gimps at the beck and call of some dumbass editor sitting his ass in an air conditioned office drinking latte's and licking lollipops, wishing he'd become a lawyer like mom wanted him to.