tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8924073396827403351.post6606700085399508332..comments2024-02-29T01:18:34.298-08:00Comments on Adventures in Modern Life: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength... (Psalms 8:2)Ben Mattlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03216939366830065725noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8924073396827403351.post-82420260642734148192010-07-13T23:32:32.187-07:002010-07-13T23:32:32.187-07:00Have enjoyed "Miracle Boy" a great deal....Have enjoyed "Miracle Boy" a great deal. While it is very compelling reading, I would love for it to be in book form so it could be read for longer periods of time. Eagerly awaiting this to be in that format soon, as well as other writings you may have done. Regards, GailAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8924073396827403351.post-81289135602888177922010-07-03T17:49:31.797-07:002010-07-03T17:49:31.797-07:00Hi Ben -- I am Grimmgirl@aol.com. My book is a co...Hi Ben -- I am Grimmgirl@aol.com. My book is a collection of articles/excerpts by people with disabilities. I tried to get a full range of voices in there -- now it is just a matter of the press getting permissions for all of them. I do a lot of freelance work for Greenhaven Press on a variety of topics, but as disability is my field of study in English, this book was more interesting for me to do than, say, Life in the Rainforest! Keep shopping that memoir around! I'd suggest Greenhaven, but they only do in-house titles.Grimmgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01602934889376992817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8924073396827403351.post-24462424378606787152010-07-03T13:41:43.182-07:002010-07-03T13:41:43.182-07:00Thanks, Grimmgirl! I can't track down your e-...Thanks, Grimmgirl! I can't track down your e-mail address or I'd write you directly. I'm delighted you're including disabilities stuff in your book. I certainly can't claim to represent my entire cohort, so I hope and assume you're quoting others, too, but what the hey? As for Beacon Press, yes, my agent did try someone there named Gayatri Patnaik a while back. (Can that possibly be right? Ah, I've just looked it up. He or she is a senior editor there: gpatnaik@beacon.org -- University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, tel 510-642-4247) I probably shouldn't publicize that, but again, what the hey?Ben Mattlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03216939366830065725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8924073396827403351.post-77513668291975798152010-07-02T20:31:30.070-07:002010-07-02T20:31:30.070-07:00Hi Ben -- I just started following your blog. I ca...Hi Ben -- I just started following your blog. I came across it when looking up your email address. I am a freelance author/editor, and I am hoping to use your essay, “People Like Me: Is there room in health care for the disabled?” for a book I am compiling for Greenhaven Press: Social Issues Firsthand: People with Disabilities. Greenhaven has a huge (mostly library market) readership. The folks at the press will contact you about permissions for the article, as I don't do that. In the meantime, tell that publisher that people ARE reading you and taking an interest in your work. Is your memoir disability related? Certainly the slew of disability memoirs in the past 20 years especially should be the Platform you are looking for. Or, have you tried some of the presses that publish disability memoir? I'm thinking of somewhere like Beacon Press, who publish Nancy Mairs and Leonard Kriegel. Good luck!Grimmgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01602934889376992817noreply@blogger.com