The publication
of a book by a writer who has been writing for 38 years without selling a word
to
I am available to participate in such a project. On the income from an advance against royalties, if it’s large enough.
Like catching Bigfoot. I am Bigfoot.
I don’t need to bring, or send home a full wage-slave’s income; if I am supporting myself, that’s enough. For a month or two.
I am a pretty low-maintenance person, who can sleep on a stranger’s couch or pallet on the floor, or sleeping bag in a tent, in warm weather.
I am personable, and quick on my feet, at interviews, lectures, press conferences, and so forth. Trials. I have a sense of humor, and am not easily flustered.
I am a good spokesman for my work. Indefatigable. You have to be. I am not sulled-up, despite my history of persecution, injustice, and the suppression of my oeuvre by midgets and drawfs.
Which is important, not for the sale of this book, although that part of it may matter to you, but for my outlook in writing the next book. The series of books I just finished writing changed me. I liberated myself, and came to see that I have it made, and have nothing to carry a chip on my shoulder about, the old Cow Chip of Doom I have been lugging around like a weight. Like excess baggage. I’m going to let go of excess baggage and take off like a striped-ass ape.
Bigfoot is an act. I know that.
So. Double-Sawbuck (XX): Twenty Months of Daily Typewriting is a how-to manual on personal self-realization, a WPA Guide to scuffling, making do, getting by on grits and grunts, and grinning through the Apocalypse like God’s own fool, twisting the tails of the righteous, the sanctimonious, the punctilious.
Épatez les bourgeoises! My escape is bitter as gall to suits, television evangelists, corporate lackeys, lady realtors, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, The Beltway, right-wing think-tanks, pundits, tenured professors of creative writing, put it in the Cracker Studies bin, there is no Cracker Studies bin, then create a Cracker Studies bin.
What I say three times is true.