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A Self-Interview with Bill Peschel, editor of the “Career Indie Author Quote Book”:
Bill … can I call you Bill?
Call me anything you like, so long as you call.
How did this project get started?
I’ve always been interested in writers and how they created their works. I also collected quote books, so it was natural that I would save pithy quotes that you didn’t find elsewhere.
It helped that I worked as a newspaper copy editor, so while I was collecting articles and ideas that would become “Writers Gone Wild,” I saved quotes as well.
Like what?
One in particular I remember clearly. I was at the Buffalo airport, waiting for my flight back to Harrisburg, and I was reading an interview with David Lynch, and he said, “You better love your work and the doing. Because what comes after, there’s no guarantees. Sometimes, you get the frosting on the cake. Sometime, you don’t. But if you love the doing and you believe in what you do, it’s OK.” I thought that was pretty neat, because he’s done some outré movies that were not well-received, and he had a good attitude about it.
And did it help?
No. I was still afraid of putting myself out there. That’s why I’ve done all these annotations. I’m pretty much wasting my time before I check out. But if it doesn’t help me, maybe it’ll help somebody else. You never know; that’s why you need to develop faith.
Anyway, I’ve collected a lot of quotes over the year, and round about the time I started writing “Career Indie Author,” I decided to knuckle down, sort through all the material I’ve saved, and put together the quote book version. A few years from now, there’ll be a “Writers Gone Wild” version, which will opinions from writers, editors, critics, and reviewers, about other writers, editors, critics, and reviewers. Plus observations about everything that weren’t strictly about writing.
So who is “Career Indie Author Quote Book” for?
[Thinks] Not everyone. Writers looking for advice. New writers wondering how to handle dialog, the publishing process, critics. Creatives looking for inspiration. Quote book fans.