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Plague Writing

Publishers, in a time of plague and pandemic, have a difficult time.   People aren’t really interested in much else beyond the crisis of the moment.   Sometimes I wonder if it’s bad form to seek publication at a time such as this. Fiction, I remind myself, is truer than fact.   And it’s a great release from the daily stresses of living amid COVID-19.   A friend of mine who’s an editor told me that novels are selling well.   Nonfiction not so much. For the last several weeks I’ve heard nothing from the agents I queried all the way back in January.   Many of them are in New York City, the epicenter, it always seems, of American drama.   So many people living so close together.   How could they be thinking about fiction? It’s the future.   Fiction, that is.   Those of us who indulge in speculative fiction know that it is a coping mechanism.   It teaches us how to handle “what if…?”   The coronavirus is a big “what if…?”   Like a monster or a demon it is invading our everyday