In response to a question from Naomi Klapper---No, I don't have a publishing company and never did. My 30 books were published by I think 17 different publishers. I always moved on to whatever book I wished to write next, and whoever was the publisher of my previous book sometimes refused to move with me, in which case I would shop my proposal around until I found some other publisher who was willing to do the book and would give me a contract and an advance. Nowadays I have no publisher and no agent, which seems to indicate that my novel writing career is over, and I spend my time writing what I like to think of as poetry. No contracts, no advances for poets, last I heard, and not much confidence by me that what I am writing is anywhere near as good as I'd like to think it might be. I used to take the money and the contract as proof that what I was writing must have some value if people were wiling to pay for it. None of that now. Still, putting my "poems" together gives me great pleasure. A different kind of value perhaps. Or perhaps just an illusion.
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2/9/2017 03:27:11 am
That's really an amazing stuff and achievement done by Robert Daley, more then 30 books are published and now they all are available on amazon network.
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