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Originally Posted by Jetstream
I'd be lucky to count off more than ten words at a time, my brain is so addled. 
Though I am somewhat interested in learning what you were published for; a professor friend of mine has been trying for years now and I can't help but think he is just bringing himself down by not achieving his goal. |
Don't think 'book' by any means....
I had an article in a national quarterly 3 years ago about a weekend a group of us spent revisiting the site of Woodstock."It was deja-vu all over again".... Also had a humorous short piece selected for a column in what was then the Daily News Sunday Magazine-that was a longer time ago. Neither was paid for, just that cool little byline under the titles.
I'm working now on a couple of essays about two-wheeling the backroads of NJ, but haven't sent them out yet.
Does your professor submit essays or is he trying to get a book published? Sometimes the best way to get a book going is get your own publisher/printer and just go for it, rather than submit to an editor and go through channels. I know someone who did just that and her book became very successful-she hawked it herself at venues that it would do well in.
Comes down to whether shit happens or life happens-if he's willing to work on the success, he will have it.