{"id":1592,"date":"2011-03-24T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suewoolfe.com.au\/pages\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:55:44","slug":"floating-sinking-in-the-world-of-e-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suewoolfe.com.au\/pages\/floating-sinking-in-the-world-of-e-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating, sinking in the world of e-publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>lt\u2019s so hard to keep to a decision. Especially this one. So hard to be brave. \u00a0I know nothing about e publishing . It\u2019d be so pleasant to sink into the warm comfort of a publishing house once again, where other people do the things i\u2019m not good at, that Ican never never learn. It\u2019d be like getting into a warm bath. Floating. \u00a0Sinking.<\/div>\n<div>Then I went to a dinner for Women Writers. They\u2019re held every month or so at an Indian Restaurant in Sydney. I\u2019d arrived late, just as everyone had finished eating. I was surrounded by writers whose work I love, and whose minds I admire \u2013 Bem le Hunte, Libby Hathorn, Louis Katz. \u00a0They\u2019re much-published. From the talk, i realized that they had all recently completed, or almost completed, new manuscripts. Just like me.<\/div>\n<div>Louise poured me a glass of her white wine. The thought came to me that I\u2019d be braver if I didn\u2019t take this step alone. \u00a0But it wouldn\u2019t be right to ask them to join me. Just because it suits me, it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019d suit them. Is this something i can ask of someone? Would she feel pressured if I asked her? \u00a0I kept silent.<\/div>\n<div>The wine was chilled. \u00a0I\u2019d rushed to get to the restaurant. I was hot and sticky, and the wine was light and sweet, and when I held it up to the light, it glowed green gold, like the silk of a beautiful dress. When I\u2019ve drunk down to the bottom of the glass, I\u2019ll ask her if she\u2019ll join me When I was about half a glass in, the gree-gold wine prompted me to ask all of them.<\/div>\n<div>They all said \u201cYes\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>So now we\u2019re going to form a co-operative to take this risk together. We\u2019re having an inaugural dinner on my back balcony, to work out our name. We\u2019re word people, so the name\u2019s the first thing. It\u2019s early autumn, and the evenings are still balmy. \u00a0I\u2019m planning the dinner, the naming dinner. It\u2019s to be Greek lamb, slowly cooked the way my friend Marianthi from Greece cooks it, browned with onions, then simmered for hours in tomatoes, pimentoes, and cinnmon. Slowly roasted potatoes, the way I watched her do them, standing at her stove in her kitchen shining with Greek coffee pans and bottles of \u00a0crystallized orange peels and dark home-made fig jams and home-marinated black olives. \u00a0(Marianthi plans to start a traditional cooking blog describing the ways of food she\u2019s inherited from her mother and grandmother and great-grand-mothers \u2013 going back to ancient times on the island of Lemnos, where I wrote \u201cLeaning Towards Infinity\u201d.) I\u2019ll do her slowly roasted potatoes, taking all afternoon in a moderate oven. And a huge Greek salad, in case someone\u2019s a vegetarian, \u00a0because I forgot to ask, with lots of salty feta and sweet red capsicum, and herbs from the garden. And a rice pudding to follow, the way Jamie Oliver does, it, but topped with slightlyl tart passionfruit. And my friend Mindy\u2019s mixture of black currents and slivers of chocolate to go with coffee.<\/div>\n<div>If the food is right, the naming talk will go smoothly, or so I hope. And in their company, I\u2019ll be brave.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lt\u2019s so hard to keep to a decision. Especially this one. So hard to be brave. \u00a0I know nothing about e publishing . It\u2019d be so pleasant to sink into the warm comfort of a publishing house once again, where other people do the things i\u2019m not good at, that Ican never never learn. 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