On returning to “the real world”

I've been holding melancholy at bay the past few days. First, absolutely first, I miss my Bennington people, my "tribe," as I think Nick Flynn described it. And the rhythm of those days. The morning stretch, the pounding heart and then the racing thoughts, all day long. Second, a kind of writing challenge was issued …

The conversion is almost complete.

I can't even remember when I first put up suerepko.com. During the late 1990s, I think, when I was writing that nanny novel that never sold. I've always been one to conceive of a full-scale marketing plan before I even have a book to sell. Business cards used to figure heavily in these schemes, but …