The area around Tompkins Square is my favorite place in the world. I’ve always wanted to live here and I‘m very lucky to have found a rent-controlled building that welcome the likes of me. I’ve lived here altogether now for about 10 years - with a break of three years when I moved to Amsterdam. How long have you lived in the East Village? This way your content and marketing merge into one. My best advice to a self-published writer is to try to say something that established publishers can’t or won’t. What is your top advice for someone considering self-publishing his or her work? It actually makes for a more satisfying experience. Because we can’t Google anyone we’re forced to make up our own minds about what’s happening in the narrative. In this case the story is the hero.Īlso writing anonymously allows me to inhabit the reader more effectively. I love that there’s no cheesey photo on the backcover and that we don’t have to hear about how the writer lives in Connecticut or San Francisco or Brooklyn or wherever with his two dogs and a cat. And now I’m already working on a third in the series a prequel to "Diary Of An Oxygen Thief." Collectively they’re known as "The Oxygen Thief Diaries."Īs a writer, do you envision continuing to remain Anonymous?īeing anonymous is part of the story. That’s when "Chameleon On a Kaleidoscope was born. But of course a diary has no finite ending and so it became obvious that there would be a second. I wanted to give the reader the impression they were eavesdropping. My original intention was to write a book that felt like somebody’s diary. While writing "Diary of an Oxygen Thief," were you already looking ahead to a second novel picking up where this one left off? So via email, we asked Anonymous a few questions about the new novel, self-publishing and life in the East Village. Turns out that Anonymous lives in the neighborhood. (Find more information about both books here.) The book, released earlier in the year on Kindle, is available as a hard copy starting next week.
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