When you Google ‘The Reluctant Guerrilla’ or ‘The Road Not Taken: Memoirs of a Reluctant Guerrilla’ now, my blog comes up with this entry from my first blog: “A used copy of my book… was being offered on Amazon.com…” Cool. There are also other references to my book on Google, most notably in Mitchell’s West Indian Bibliography, Bibliography of the Grenada Revolution, some academic text in German and a listing of my name and book title and what appears to be an ISBN in an entry from the Trinidad and Tobago Education ministry:
www.books.ai/9th/Del-Deq.htm
www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com/page15.html
www.nalis.gov.tt/Education/351resources.html
I am trying to enjoy the whole writing and publishing experience. When the first edition was launched in Jamaica in 1985, I was in Montreal, where I wrote the book. At one point the publishers asked me “When are you coming to claim authorship?” This time I will be taking a kind of “damn the torpedoes” approach....In TRNT I said David Schwartz’s The Magic of Thinking Big was most influential in those last desperate days in Jamaica. It was my bible for positive thinking. I am now reading the author’s follow-up The Magic of Getting What You Want, published in 1983. I am also reading and re-reading Carolyn See’s Making A Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers. The book is a pep talk and is chock filled with useful suggestions for would-be writers. “Anything that you can do to pretend to be a writer - do it,” See says. Personal assistant? An entourage? Bodyguards? “Do you want lovers?” Aha, that’s a riot. Making A Literary Life is my new bible.
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