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The Launch of THE BACK ROOMHop On Board
Dear Friends, This weekend I’ll be launching the paid subscription side of Garrison Keillor and Friends under the name of The Back Room. Many of you have signed up already and each weekend you will receive an unpublished writing (monologues, sonnets, limericks, essays), or chapters from a new book, or concepts for a new idea. You may even have a question or two thrown at you. This will evolve after it gets going, but it’s time to get my feet wet. If you haven’t subscribed for a small monthly fee you may want to consider hopping on board and getting a peek at long-lost items and/or works in progress. For those that want to stay with the free subscription, you don’t need to do anything and you will continue to receive Monday’s Post to the Hosts, the Wednesday column, and another column on Friday. If you want to read works in progress and many items from our archive, click the subscribe button and either sign up for the monthly fee or pay a reduced annual amount. As things get posted, feel free to comment with items that you would love to read along the way. I’d assumed I’d fade away at around 70 but the past nine years have been pretty rich, a new novel with three more in the works, a memoir, a Lake Wobegon screenplay, and in The Back Room, readers will be sent works in progress, read anything when the ink is still wet, and be able to comment, correct, chastise, or sheer. I’ll have a section called “Memoir Amendments,” truthful revisions of misremembered events. There may be a podcast offered here as well as interviews with some TWA poets. When I get back to public performance, there will be some video clips. The archivist will post videos of some moments fondly remembered from the radio show (not too many, just the sweet ones). Why the move? Because the world as I knew it back in my youthful ambition is fading fast. Publishers are conglomerating, newspapers and magazines are going off in their own directions, and millennial editors are looking for millennial writers and I say Bravo to that, but I’m writing more than ever and intend to keep going, and my ambition now has nothing to do with Best Sellers or Prestigious Prizes and everything to do with connecting with readers. My wife loves e-books and if I want to rekindle her interest in what I have to say, I have to go online.” So that’s what I’ll do. Simple as that. Thanks again, Garrison Keillor ************************************************* If you are interested in having access to The Back Room just click the Subscribe Now button and then check the monthly fee, annual fee, or founders fee. © 2021 Garrison Keillor Unsubscribe |
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