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Comments on: Jetblues http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/ Author of Mississippi Sissy Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Vance D. Croft http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-836 Mon, 28 May 2007 18:51:08 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-836 I have just finished your book (I bought it at OutWrite bookstore in Atlanta) and I was moved to tears several times. My life paralleled yours in many ways. I was born in 1959 a South Georgia sissy. Like you, I was a stuttering, aguished kid that preferred Barbies and paper dolls to dump trucks and toy soldiers. I also played high school football and basketball to quiet the ridicule and deflect the attention away from my feminine manner. I also learned to be fierce debater with my right-wing rascist, intolerant, abusive redneck father. The sting of the word 'sissy' helped me be steadfast in working hard to get out of the small town into the wide world I had discovered in my books and especially the outdated Encyclopedia Brittanica my parents had purchased when I was born (it did not record President Kennedy's assasination) I envy the mentors you were fortunate to have in your teenage years in Jackson. I wish I had had a Frank Hains in my life in early teenage years. I didn't have a trusted gay mentor until my mid-twenties when I came out. Those were years I was still faking my heterosexuality and not until CNN Headline News started doing AIDS reports did I really know there was a Gay community anywhere. I will be purchasing many more of your books and passing them along to my friends here in Atlanta and I can't wait until your next book in published. Sincerely Vance D. Croft I have just finished your book (I bought it at OutWrite bookstore in Atlanta) and I was moved to tears several times. My life paralleled yours in many ways. I was born in 1959 a South Georgia sissy. Like you, I was a stuttering, aguished kid that preferred Barbies and paper dolls to dump trucks and toy soldiers. I also played high school football and basketball to quiet the ridicule and deflect the attention away from my feminine manner. I also learned to be fierce debater with my right-wing rascist, intolerant, abusive redneck father. The sting of the word ’sissy’ helped me be steadfast in working hard to get out of the small town into the wide world I had discovered in my books and especially the outdated Encyclopedia Brittanica my parents had purchased when I was born (it did not record President Kennedy’s assasination)

I envy the mentors you were fortunate to have in your teenage years in Jackson. I wish I had had a Frank Hains in my life in early teenage years. I didn’t have a trusted gay mentor until my mid-twenties when I came out. Those were years I was still faking my heterosexuality and not until CNN Headline News started doing AIDS reports did I really know there was a Gay community anywhere. I will be purchasing many more of your books and passing them along to my friends here in Atlanta and I can’t wait until your next book in published.

Sincerely

Vance D. Croft

]]> by: mara http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-519 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:05:08 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-519 Too late to make any difference, probably, but you should intersperse public library appearances with bookstore appearances. Might not make any difference in sales, but perhaps they would be an ego-boost. :-) Too late to make any difference, probably, but you should intersperse public library appearances with bookstore appearances. Might not make any difference in sales, but perhaps they would be an ego-boost. :-)

]]> by: Jackie Danicki http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-515 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:38:07 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-515 Hang in there, Kevin. Try shifting your focus from yourself to how your words are going to affect the people who read those three books (and the rest you sell) - who they'll share your book with, the pleasure you'll bring. Give yourself a fixed amount of time to feel wretched and then put your spotlight firmly on enthusiasm for the experience...and the experience you are giving others. Chin up. Hang in there, Kevin. Try shifting your focus from yourself to how your words are going to affect the people who read those three books (and the rest you sell) - who they’ll share your book with, the pleasure you’ll bring. Give yourself a fixed amount of time to feel wretched and then put your spotlight firmly on enthusiasm for the experience…and the experience you are giving others. Chin up.

]]> by: homer http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-512 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:31:41 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-512 Hey Kevin, just wanted you to know that I ordered your book today. Hey Kevin, just wanted you to know that I ordered your book today.

]]> by: CL Tamaz http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-508 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:02:10 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-508 It's hard to be an author. I only know that because I've never been one. I am, however, an artist, and I do know what it's like to do a show or gallery and have an endless stream of people come up to me and rave about my stuff and then wander away to focus on the veggie plate or wine bar--you know, the really important things. Does that happen on book tours? And, although I"ve never been to Mississippi, and I am most definitely NOT a sissy, goddamnit, I'm actually thinking of maybe, possibly, at some time in the near, or distant future, giving more than a passing thought to considering buying your book. (I wanted to give you the same sort of firm commitment that I get) Actually, it seems you have some weather and airport issues to work through. Don't worry, Global Warming is coming to solve these problems. By, the way, you can thank Andrew Sulluivan for the fact that I even know about you. It’s hard to be an author. I only know that because I’ve never been one. I am, however, an artist, and I do know what it’s like to do a show or gallery and have an endless stream of people come up to me and rave about my stuff and then wander away to focus on the veggie plate or wine bar–you know, the really important things. Does that happen on book tours? And, although I”ve never been to Mississippi, and I am most definitely NOT a sissy, goddamnit, I’m actually thinking of maybe, possibly, at some time in the near, or distant future, giving more than a passing thought to considering buying your book. (I wanted to give you the same sort of firm commitment that I get)

Actually, it seems you have some weather and airport issues to work through. Don’t worry, Global Warming is coming to solve these problems.

By, the way, you can thank Andrew Sulluivan for the fact that I even know about you.

]]> by: Bill http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-507 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:48:39 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-507 Kevin, From a fellow author who has been where you are and felt what you are feeling: take heart! The solitude of book-touring (and book-writing, for that matter) is lethal, but it has nothing to do with the magic of a reader opening up your book for the first time and hearing your wonderful voice. So stop checking Amazon and keep your chin up. Ars longa, book tour brevis. Best, Bill L. Kevin,

From a fellow author who has been where you are and felt what you are feeling: take heart! The solitude of book-touring (and book-writing, for that matter) is lethal, but it has nothing to do with the magic of a reader opening up your book for the first time and hearing your wonderful voice. So stop checking Amazon and keep your chin up. Ars longa, book tour brevis.

Best,

Bill L.

]]> by: Tony Comstock http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-503 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:19:25 +0000 http://mississippisissy.com/blog/2007/04/17/jetblues/#comment-503 Several years ago I made the unwise decission to start financing my own films, and then, when distributors expressed no interest, made the even unwiser decission to begin distributing them as well. Now these several years later, having found some modest measure of success, I've come to realize that days like the one you've described above that make being a writer or filmmaker or whatever work rather than being merely a hobby, and that being stubborn enough to it out is where the battle is won. Several years ago I made the unwise decission to start financing my own films, and then, when distributors expressed no interest, made the even unwiser decission to begin distributing them as well. Now these several years later, having found some modest measure of success, I’ve come to realize that days like the one you’ve described above that make being a writer or filmmaker or whatever work rather than being merely a hobby, and that being stubborn enough to it out is where the battle is won.

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