Chris Dungey's Blog - Posts Tagged "choir"

Well, I sold books at choir rehearsal tonight. I gave them the "starving-artist-friends-and-family" rate, just to sell books. I needed a boost in morale. And, I tried to warn them that some of the material might be kind of raw and that I hoped they wouldn't think too ill of me by Sunday morning. I write K-Mart realism, trailer-park realism, I told them. They bought five copies anyway. I know a few of them are quite liberal so maybe it'll all be cool. Still, I kept thinking that maybe I should get them to sign a waiver, listen to a disclaimer perhaps: Oh, the Seventies were a different time; the main protagonist gets sober and cleans of his act in the end; none of it is autobiographical anyway! Well, I might give them a discount but I won't sell out my characters. I love choral music. I would miss it. But not as much as I'd miss writing life as it is.