Note: J. P. S. Brown's Arizona Saga has recently been published in a trade paperback edition by the Authors Guild's Back-in-Print Program (www.backinprint.com). The four books--The Blooded Stock, The Horseman, Ladino, and Native Born--can be ordered from any bookstore, online from the Back-in-Print Bookstore, or directly from Brown himself at the address below. Brown asks $25 apiece for the books, or $95 for all four, but that includes shipping. If you buy them from him he will make a little more.
J. P. S. Brown
Box 972
Patagonia, AZ 85624
Dear J. P. S. Brown:
Thanks for the newsy letter. Please send me all four books. I enclose a check.
The book I have coming out from a small press has been delayed. My publisher lost
his day job. There's many a slip twixt cup and lip.
In September, I plan
to write a 12-book series, a book a month, called The Empty Nest: My First 35
Years as a Writer. I enclose an outline of the series.
I will publish
them online at The Daily Bulletin, as I write them.
I am trying to
interest a publisher in reprinting them, in a uniform trade paperback edition, with
a design to the series, but don't have much hope for that.
They deal with
how I went from working as a laborer, writing in my head, and typing up what I wrote
that day at the dining room table, after work, to getting a job with a desk and a
typewriter and access to a copying machine, and writing at work, during lulls, to
doing the same thing with a small, desktop computer, to going online at home and
publishing the books myself, on the worldwide web, in real time. No lag for production,
for the editing process, for a scrub by the libel lawyers, it's live, without a safety
net, one-take. Fix the holes, the contradictions, the afterthoughts in the next day's
work.
I weave what's happening to me, including what happens to the books,
after I write (and publish) them, into the story of how I got here, from where I
started. How I combined writing, work, and family, for 3½ decades. With scant external
validation.
What kept me going was the joy of doing it, the process I saw
myself making, in the work, kind remarks from thoughtful readers, and my sense of
belonging to a tradition, that of the outsider artists whose fate I shared.
Your friend,
Jack Saunders
Garage Band Books
Box 10501
Panama City, FL 32404