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ONE WOMAN'S WAKE-UP CALL: WHAT EVERY ASPIRING WRITER SHOULD KNOW
Review by Anonymous---gotta give them one star stalkers a leg up, eh Mr. G. Jeffs?
Quarter Moon Dues... published by author Linda Gail Shelnutt on Kindle. Quarter Moon Dues as a whole is one book in her Gem series. If read as part of that and in sequence I believe the reader will get much more out of it...as it continues with the saga of middle aged Jennifer O'Reilley [starting out as Jennifer Green] and her efforts to follow the path of her dreams to become a best-selling author with all she believes that will mean for humanity. The entire story, beginning with Morning Comes, is my favorite kind of story: the in-depth examination of a life...and Life itself...with its loves and hates, ups and downs beauty and ugliness. You come to know Jennifer quite well when you read the entire series... you get to experience the details of a life...come to know the people around her...come to feel her triumphs and her pain.
The point, however, is that Quarter Moon Dues can be read standing alone as well. If you are an aspiring writer, this book is a must read...because Linda Gail Shelnutt is sharing with you two decades of struggle to become a published author. You will meet the agents and the editors, the authors and the publishers as you wind your way through the saga of a very creative woman trying ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING....every kind of approach you could imagine...and many at least I couldn't....
You'll get to see the actual response of the identified players...from the biggest boys and girls to the bottom feeders from New York to San Diego... to the various techniques...what worked...what didn't. It's an education you could pay hundreds of dollars to get at some seminar....an education no aspiring writer will want to miss.
You can throw away Writers' Literary Market...this book is all you'll need.
The primary appeal of such a saga for me, apart from the educational value, seeing first hand what this game...this publishing jungle...is all about, are the roller-coaster emotions that Shelnutt's vivid writing style allows you to share. Since you are getting this struggle practically in Jennifer's real time, you buy into her hopes for some new technique she decides to try after feeling her pain and frustration when, after a couple of chapters worth of hope for a previous technique, it flames out in humiliating failure.
The converse is also true...when weeks of dunning failure after dogged determination suddenly bring a ray of hope...a ticket to the Big Time....the writer's dream.
Will she ultimately be successful?
You will surely be rooting for her, because with all the give and take, this is also a human interest story. This is a real person here. From all there will be sympathy...from aspiring writers there will be EMPATHY.
To those who read The Rose and the Pyramid, Shelnutt's 1985 premiere effort now a collectors' item, or Morning Comes and the Gem series, Quarter Moon Dues offers the added pleasure of Linda's further advocacy for realization on Earth of what I call the "Gemist values". These may also be found in large part in her Visceral Histories relating to the coal industry, as well as in her separate publication, Myrtle's Ultimate Mystery [another greatly engrossing read let me tell you! I had nightmares for weeks!].
The values themselves are interesting and, more than that, thought-provoking...especially in today's troubled times. If everything else were removed from this book, the advocacy of those values alone make Quarter Moon Dues a masterful and entertaining politico-philosophical treatise...which should at the very least command serious thought from any American reader.
Human interest, the dog-eat-dog of the publishing world, political and social blueprint...this book has all of those.
FIVE STARS for vivid composition and reader interest.
anonymous---to avoid deletionQuarter Moon Dues: Concluding Qtr (The Books of Gem: 6) OverviewAs you read QUARTER MOON DUES: Concluding Qtr, you'll notice that the fantasy and reality storylines, which percolated through earlier Books of Gem, have syncopated into a back beat for the jazz steps in a series of letters. With this book, the reason for the gradual dance away from established plot lines clarifies into the bull dog determination of a writer to synchronize a heartbeat between the moon and New York City. As with MORNING COMES, FULL MOON RISING, NEW MOON BLUES, and QUARTER MOON DUES, this story in letters is a parallel to THE ROSE AND THE PYRAMID, and the book titles and letters used are exact or close replicas of those sent by Linda Shelnutt.From a 2008 retrospect, Linda no longer questions whether the letters are an ingenious "How To" or a hilarious "How Not To" break into the Majors in USA Publishing. To the rhythm of blues, in 2007, she stepped into a canoe, joining a free flowing stream of consciousness gaining momentum out of Seattle, feeding hungry minds, kindling campfires, and singing folk

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