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Comments on: If I Still Have Any Readers On This Blog … http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/ Author of Mississippi Sissy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: no1uno http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4479 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:04:37 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4479 A great friend of mine - history/polysci prof here in Gainesville, FL - gave me your book for Christmas, well Solstice if I were honest. It was the best present I received this year and I am grateful to know that I am not the only small town boy to dress up like a witch for Halloween. I shared that part of your story with a hetero male friend of mine and he confessed that he also dressed like a witch one year. And I thought we were special! The illuminating racial commentary and confessions of your story intrigued me. As a Yankee sissy, I learn about the history and emotions of the South from people like you. And, alliteration's allure also attracts and appeals to me as well. Great book Kevin. I am going to go back in time via the library to read some of your VF/Interview articles and will be keeping up with your current work. A great friend of mine - history/polysci prof here in Gainesville, FL - gave me your book for Christmas, well Solstice if I were honest. It was the best present I received this year and I am grateful to know that I am not the only small town boy to dress up like a witch for Halloween. I shared that part of your story with a hetero male friend of mine and he confessed that he also dressed like a witch one year. And I thought we were special!

The illuminating racial commentary and confessions of your story intrigued me. As a Yankee sissy, I learn about the history and emotions of the South from people like you.

And, alliteration’s allure also attracts and appeals to me as well. Great book Kevin. I am going to go back in time via the library to read some of your VF/Interview articles and will be keeping up with your current work.

]]> by: Jeff http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4436 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:39:22 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4436 ...but you are a writer, have been and are surrounded by writers.... stories of rejection letters papering walls are a dime-a-dozen....take Mississippi alone: Faulkner, Welty, Tennessee... ;as editor, you surely must have rejected submittals or returned work for an additional iterations is it possible your novel may be more forceful as a short story? stories? put aside for awhile until it reveals itself to you? i only suggest these possibilities because I’m an architect and often in frustration (mine and clients') I have to put the model & drawings in the far corner of a room and glance at, ignore it, see it in daylight, dark. Sometimes it's just dead; gets dumped in the trash, I start over. …but you are a writer, have been and are surrounded by writers…. stories of rejection letters papering walls are a dime-a-dozen….take Mississippi alone: Faulkner, Welty, Tennessee…
;as editor, you surely must have rejected submittals or returned work for an additional iterations
is it possible your novel may be more forceful as a short story? stories? put aside for awhile until it reveals itself to you?
i only suggest these possibilities because I’m an architect and often in frustration (mine and clients’) I have to put the model & drawings in the far corner of a room and glance at, ignore it, see it in daylight, dark. Sometimes it’s just dead; gets dumped in the trash, I start over.

]]> by: Jason Faulkner http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4388 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:00:45 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4388 Kevin, I just wanted to let you know that 2008 is your year! You my friend are a brilliant writer and an amazing man. I can already see myself going to Barnes @ Noble and picking up your new book, heading over to a little granola cookie coffee shop in Pinehurst and sitting in the sun and cherishing every word. When negative thoughts enter your mind (that make you depressed), I want you to vision me sitting at the granola cookie coffee shop, in the sun, reading your book “I Left It on the Mountain” gaining the inspiration I need to carry me through the day. Which come to think of it, “I Left It on the Mountain” that sounds like a good mantra for 2008, since last year’s mantra was, “Are You on the List”? After all, that is what we all should do “Leave it on the Mountain”. Cherish every moment of every day; leave the baggage and negative energy on the mountain, while we live in the happy presence of each moment! Kevin,

I just wanted to let you know that 2008 is your year! You my friend are a brilliant writer and an amazing man. I can already see myself going to Barnes @ Noble and picking up your new book, heading over to a little granola cookie coffee shop in Pinehurst and sitting in the sun and cherishing every word.

When negative thoughts enter your mind (that make you depressed), I want you to vision me sitting at the granola cookie coffee shop, in the sun, reading your book “I Left It on the Mountain” gaining the inspiration I need to carry me through the day. Which come to think of it, “I Left It on the Mountain” that sounds like a good mantra for 2008, since last year’s mantra was, “Are You on the List”?

After all, that is what we all should do “Leave it on the Mountain”. Cherish every moment of every day; leave the baggage and negative energy on the mountain, while we live in the happy presence of each moment!

]]> by: Steve S http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4377 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:17:20 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4377 Let's face it, the reason your sequel to "Mississippi Sissy" hasn't been greeted with open arms is that is just a continuation of the second half of it's predecessor. And that, quite frankly, lacked something. Like a good editor, Eudora's trusty scissors and a main character the reader cared about. There are nuggets of pure gold in the first part of "Mississippi Sissy", if you can recapture that sense of discovery and cut back on the whining and self-destruction I think you may have a decent novel on your hands. Let’s face it, the reason your sequel to “Mississippi Sissy” hasn’t been greeted with open arms is that is just a continuation of the second half of it’s predecessor. And that, quite frankly, lacked something. Like a good editor, Eudora’s trusty scissors and a main character the reader cared about. There are nuggets of pure gold in the first part of “Mississippi Sissy”, if you can recapture that sense of discovery and cut back on the whining and self-destruction I think you may have a decent novel on your hands.

]]> by: AD http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4350 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:38:30 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4350 Read an interview with Kevin at www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=17038. Read an interview with Kevin at www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=17038.

]]> by: Jeff M. http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4281 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:07:57 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4281 I am so excited you are doing a sequal to "SISSY" and I'm flabbergahsted that the book you are shopping around isn't getting snapped up instantly... "SISSY" remains the most rewarding work of literature I've read. So personal, so touching, so honest.... I can't thank you enough for sharing your life with us... you help me feel connected! With sincere affection! I am so excited you are doing a sequal to “SISSY” and I’m flabbergahsted that the book you are shopping around isn’t getting snapped up instantly…

“SISSY” remains the most rewarding work of literature I’ve read. So personal, so touching, so honest…. I can’t thank you enough for sharing your life with us… you help me feel connected!

With sincere affection!

]]> by: Kurt http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4238 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:29:21 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/11/29/if-i-still-have-any-readers-on-this-blog/#comment-4238 Hi Kevin, Just wanted you to know that we here at ModernTonic LOVED Mississippi Sissy. We featured it in our 2007 Holiday BEST BOOKS Guide. Thank you for sharing this memoir with us! moderntonic.com Happy Holidays, Kurt Hi Kevin,

Just wanted you to know that we here at ModernTonic LOVED Mississippi Sissy. We featured it in our 2007 Holiday BEST BOOKS Guide. Thank you for sharing this memoir with us!
moderntonic.com

Happy Holidays,

Kurt

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