No Matter How Bad You Think You

Just Let Mitch Be Mitch

I Have Been Blessed To Have The Same Editor And Work For A Great Publishing House.

One Of The Most Talented Writers Out There Is Brian Haig.

I Have Such Bad Memories, Sitting In The Back Of A Classroom, Being Told, You Know, Everybody Is Going To Read A Paragraph, And Skipping Ahead To My Paragraph And Being Mortified And Trying To Read It Enough Times So That I Wouldn't Stutter And Stammer, Getting Called On, Even In High School.

When I Was Writing My First Novel A Friend Told Me I Should Apply For A Grant From The Government That Was Offered To Support Starving Artists. I Can't Tell You How Much This Deeply Offended Me. I Told Her In Very Clear Language That I Thought It Was Ridiculous To Think That Other Americans Ought To Pay For Me To Chase My Dream. Anybody Who Understands Pride And Self-determination Gets This. So I Bartended At Night, I Wrote During The Day, And I Paid For My Own Damn Insurance. I Didn't Expect Anybody Else To Pick It Up For Me.