The following piece originally ran as part of Matt’s “Blowing Up” column in TNT:
Michele Jordan
www.micheleannajordan.com
While many may consider the writer’s life to be a solitary one, it actually is dependent upon and deeply intertwined with many other people. Even for those editorial entrepreneurs who publish on their own, there are many other people in the pipeline in addition to those who (hopefully) purchase and read the books. From editors to agents to booksellers and publicists, there are many people without whom the so-called solitary scribe could not sustain.
In order to make it as writer, it takes a bunch of fresh ideas and the drive to plant and prune them even before others think they are ripe. Michele Anna Jordan has been writing about California’s famed Sonoma County before it was known as “Wine Country” and has remained a publishing pioneer on the CA food and wine scenes.