Q: Can you share an anecdote around the publishing process for Buying Cigarettes for the Dog?
A: In Key West, Florida in the late 1930s, Ernest Hemingway arrived at his book launches in a 1929 Phantom II Short Coupled Saloon Rolls-Royce, driven by Toby Otto Bruce. In Alberta in 2009, Stuart Ross arrived at his book launches in a dusty, beat-up 1997 GMC Jimmy with poorly-functioning air-conditioning and a squeaky tape player, driven by his editor. Fortunately, Stuart didn’t mind the lack of glamour. He happily suffered through hot drives to Red Deer and Edmonton, browsed vintage cassette tapes in the Red Deer Value Village when we arrived two hours early for his launch, and delivered readings that Ernest himself would have envied. He is truly a dream author to work with.
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Hey, I didn't know I could've arrived in a Phantom II Short Coupled Saloon Rolls-Royce! Was that an option?
I'm intrigued by the Hemingway comparisons. This is the second one: the first was in the one bad review my book received: for some incomprehensible reason the reviewer compared me to EH and I just didn't measure up.
Sigh.
But that Red Deer/Edmonton road trip was a blast!
Stuart
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