• Forest for the Trees
  • THE FOREST FOR THE TREES is about writing, publishing and what makes writers tick. This blog is dedicated to the self loathing that afflicts most writers. A community of like-minded malcontents gather here. I post less frequently now, but hopefully with as much vitriol. Please join in! Gluttons for punishment can scroll through the archives.

    If I’ve learned one thing about writers, it’s this: we really are all alone. Thanks for reading. Love, Betsy

While U Were Out

I’m back from Disneyland. While I was out, I have to say the inbox filled up with some mostly very happy making news. Don’t jinx it but two books on the verge of publication are getting some great coverage — more on that to come. One writer who was stuck has come unstuck. Another who was very ill is much better and her revised proposal appeared in a beautifully revised fashion. Another proposal nearly ready to go from an author who disappeared for a year and returned with a revision that is nothing short of astonishing. A small press publisher is interested in a book I love and couldn’t find a trade home for three years!

I have to be honest. I didn’t want to get up today. Not without Mickey and Tink and all my friends at the Magic Kingdom. (Did you know they sell, and people eat, gigantic Fred Flintsone-esque turkey legs there?) But, hey, publishing it its own magical kingdom and today, even without a 90 minute wait to go down Splash Mountain, was a decent day.

One more thing: while I was away this wonderful young woman named Hilary in Detroit is working on making a better site for me. I hope it will be up and running soon with author jackets, photos, etc. All this writing is getting a little dull.

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