A2: Novelist

The Freep publishes a short Q&A with local author Steve Amick, who’ll be holding a writer’s workshop on Saturday, July 11 at 826michigan in Ann Arbor. Responding to a question about lessons learned, Amick says: “One of the hardest lessons of grad school was accepting the truth of how many books just go in the drawer. I was 40 before I sold my first book, which is fine, but I was 12 or 13 when I first started thinking I wanted to be a writer. If you had told me I wouldn’t sell my first book for more than 20 years, I probably would have quit. I didn’t believe all that talk about how much work would never see the light of day; that you have to write all of that to get to the story that’s true, that’s waiting to be written.” [Source]