Thinking about writing
A lovely on-line friend updated her FB profile to be an
"author-in-training." It was accompanied by a wonderful ink-pen image,
and her cover page was replaced by a vintage typewriter. Perfect.
Being a writer and being an author are definitely different things. I'm not sure what being an author really means in today's digital world -- published by a traditional press? having a book available on Amazon or Apple Books?
Giving a talk at Malaprops (our local indie bookstore) -- that's been a total thrill for the launch of my hubby's two books, published by UNC Press.
It's a wonderful aspiration to be an author, I think. I'm a writer, with two small books "published" -- one self-published many years ago, based on a field guide that I produced as a graduate student; the second was published through a University press, in print and digital form -- The Nature of Clemson: A Field Guide to the Natural History of Clemson University, so relatively small books, both of them.
Nice to see that it's now downloadable!
And perhaps it's telling that the Field Guide files haven't made it onto my current desktop, now a couple of iterations away from either my former desktop back in the Piedmont, nor were they transferred from my work computer, left to be on back-up hard drives. So, I don't have a full-size cover image to share.
I don't think about myself as an author -- I'm a writer, though, probably I'm in search of some sort of new book or books.
Being a writer and being an author are definitely different things. I'm not sure what being an author really means in today's digital world -- published by a traditional press? having a book available on Amazon or Apple Books?
Giving a talk at Malaprops (our local indie bookstore) -- that's been a total thrill for the launch of my hubby's two books, published by UNC Press.
It's a wonderful aspiration to be an author, I think. I'm a writer, with two small books "published" -- one self-published many years ago, based on a field guide that I produced as a graduate student; the second was published through a University press, in print and digital form -- The Nature of Clemson: A Field Guide to the Natural History of Clemson University, so relatively small books, both of them.
Nice to see that it's now downloadable!
And perhaps it's telling that the Field Guide files haven't made it onto my current desktop, now a couple of iterations away from either my former desktop back in the Piedmont, nor were they transferred from my work computer, left to be on back-up hard drives. So, I don't have a full-size cover image to share.
I don't think about myself as an author -- I'm a writer, though, probably I'm in search of some sort of new book or books.
I am not sure, Lisa, maybe being an author means my work is of the caliber a publisher would publish it and readers would want to read it. I have come to realize I am a writer, but writing short stories and blogs fall short of what I hope to accomplish. I am anxious to check out your link above.
ReplyDeleteTo describe myself as an author, I think having an independent publisher would be my screen, too. But I'm thinking of friends who have written entire novels, but haven't been published (it seems like they're authors?) And looking up definitions of "author" was interesting, just now -- they all seemed to be variations on the same theme of anyone who's created a piece of written work. Hmm. It's fascinating that it somehow also has had that connotation of have written a published work, too, in our cultural perspective -- I certainly had that notion when I wrote this post!
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