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The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 11: We Need Permission! And a Latin Expert!
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In Part 6 of this "All-True" series, I blogged about Beth Pearson and her amazing team who, among other things, flagged every place in The Four Ms. Bradwells where I quoted material from elsewhere, and made suggestions where permissions might be needed to include the quotes. To be honest, I've been frightened enough of the permissions process to avoid it in my first two novels, but since Ginger in The Four Ms. Bradwells is a poet who prefers quoting others' lines to revealing herself, I recognized that this time I might bump into some permission issues. Then something happened on the way to the end of the novel: I heard John Felstiner read from his wonderful book, Can Poetry Save the Earth? And the poem he read was Jane Kenyon's "Let Evening Come"... read more