| August 17, 1982
Dear Don,
Thanks for the card about Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon
and the anecdote.
The bad news I expected, but didn’t really, came
yesterday from Pittsburgh. “Now there was one: Carnegie-
Mellon.
You’ll remember I told you Costanzo wrote me
a good letter about my book last October–thus, after
I had unwittingly mailed my manuscript to him
too late for last year’s competition. Since he was
writing his letter before the last revision of the book,
I think I have an outside chance there for more
than a “yes rejection”–the note of praise saying
no, of the sort I received from Pitt yesterday.
I did send Costanzo the last revision, by the
way, saying that I knew he couldn’t do anything about
it at that time, but that I wanted him to
see it in its new form. (No answer from him
2/
about that.)
If Constanzo doesn’t take it, I guess I will
just stop sending it to the places I’ve been trying
for the past four years. More of the same would
be all that would happen.
Which brings me to my question: Are there
alternatives beyond the ones I’ve been trying?
I am reluctant still to send the thing to small
presses because such publication often does not
lead to exposure, jobs or grants for new writing
time. But there’s always Greywolf, I suppose
(assuming they’d be interested), and maybe
there are others…
Well. Please let know about this whenever
you can. In the meantime, I will continue
to write. I hope you and Jane will too!
Love,
Wes |
