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This powerful little book is about writing, getting published and selling your book. It's about the urge to write, writing mentors, writer's block, when to start to write and what to write. If you're a writer or have an interest in writing, "Write Now!" will lead you into the writer's life—to the life of rejection, questioning your writing abilities, wondering if you'll ever get published and what to do when no one comes to your book reading. This book is not only the story of the making of a writer, it's a book that will make you want to write.

JOURNAL 1985: The Life of a Salesman Who Dreams of Writing Again is one of many yearly journals written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. In this 7000-word journal, Sutton writes about the highs and lows of being a wholesale salesman of costume jewelry. He writes about his wife, their four-year-old son, and the constant battles he has with his teenage stepson. Sutton dreams of getting back to being the writer of fiction that was far from lucrative for him but supporting his family as a salesman takes precedence over everything else.

"The Immortal Mouth and Other Stories" is a collection of 16 short stories dealing with classic American themes of heroes and mentors, roller-coaster relationships, sports, growing up and aging. These stories deal with humanity’s goodness and wickedness, loyalty and betrayal, rage and exultation, triumph and defeat.

This collection of short stories covers a wide range of subjects—from homelessness, sex and sports to school and animal stories. Plus, there's a cruel mother-in-law story, a story about an unthinking neighbor, a story about a man who saves Manhattan from disaster, a story about faith, and even a story about all unknown writers being the equal of Hemingway. These stories are innovative and unusual, as well as stimulating and humorous.

IN THE TIME OF MY LIFE: SELECTED WRITINGS is a collection of Joseph Sutton's best writing over a period of fifty years. This anthology of stories and chapters is extracted from Sutton’s eight published books: three novels, three story collections, a memoir and a baseball book. Put all these stories and chapters together and what you have, after fifty years of writing, is a mother lode of revelations, insights, wisdom and humor from the pen of Joseph Sutton.There are key excerpts from Sutton's three novels. MORNING PAGES: THE ALMOST TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE is about a writer finding a way to ...

This collection of 11 short stories is based on author Joseph Sutton's Syrian Jewish background. The title story, "The Life and Death of Abraham Massry," is about a Jewish immigrant from Syria who wants his son Jake to follow the business and marriage path taken by him and his ancestors, except Jake shows the true calling of America by blazing his own trail. There are stories about Jake growing up in the wide open spaces of Los Angeles as compared to Brooklyn where most of the Syrian Jews live and who still cling to the religious and cultural customs of the past. Other stories in this ...

*My Writing Year* is a collection of 52 short essays that deal with writing and the writing process. A sampling of essays include "How to Write and Love Doing It," "Overcoming Writer's Block," "Deadlines are Lifelines" and "A Typical Day in This Writer's Life." Every aspect of writing is covered, such as overcoming rejection, getting feedback, persevering against all odds, contending with interruptions, plus many more essays to motivate and inspire both beginning and professional writers to focus on their writing goal. The basic principle mentioned throughout this book is for writers to sit...

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” wrote Thomas Paine in 1776. Yes, these Trump Times of 2016 to the end of 2017 have tried a lot of men and women’s souls. As a writer and citizen of the United States, I can no longer be silent, for as professional football player Michael Bennett has said, “There’s a point where silence is becoming dishonest.” The three essays in this book show why Donald Trump is a menace to America's ideals.

Journal 2014: The Life of an Unknown Writer is the 12th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. The main topics Sutton covered in 2014 were: Writing, Self-Publishing, the San Francisco Giants' World Series Run, the Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album, Exercise, Weight Loss/Gain, Climate Change, and much, much more.

This book chronicles the life of a writer, mainly his thoughts on the writing process and self-publishing. It also gives a picture of the United States in the year 2008, when the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq dragged on, when the Great Recession wreaked havoc on the economy, and when Barack Obama was elected president.

It's 1969. Joshua Sampson, a history teacher in a predominantly black high school in South Central Los Angeles, finds the only way to break through a wall of apathy is to let his students teach. Sampson’s students, with his guidance, lead discussions on the Vietnam War, Black Power, drugs, freedom, police harassment, the grading system, capital punishment, premarital sex, and even if Sampson is teaching them or not. In addition, the students hold trials, sign petitions and have weekly debates. The wall of apathy has crumbled and an air of liveliness has taken its place. Why? The students ...

Where were you in 2010? What were you doing? What was going on in the country that year? San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton, who's been keeping a journal since 1970, tells you what he was doing and what was going on in the country in 2010. It was the year he decided to become a self-publisher. It was the year of the Great Recession, Obamacare, ongoing climate change, and the continuing occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Sutton also writes of his days growing up in Hollywood, of his athletic days in high school, and of his days playing football for the University of Oregon. He writes about...

San Francisco author Joseph Sutton digs deep as to why so many Americans refused to believe that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election. It's just one of many subjects Sutton deals with in this yearly journal. Other subjects include COVID, vaccinations, his three favorite Bay Area sports teams, his life as a writer, being 80 years old, and climate change.

This is the 14th yearly journal by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton that shows him on the cusp of fatherhood as he battles with himself to stick to a unprofitable 11-year writing career or to choose another profession that brings security to his family.

Journal 1993 is the ninth in a series of yearly journals by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. This journal shows the ups and downs Sutton experienced as a dedicated but unpublished writer. It covers the relationship that he, a former college football player, had with his baseball-loving 12-year-old son. Also included are two important things he learned from his therapist—how to deal with a meddlesome, controlling mother-in-law and how his athletic ability saved him from being stifled as a young boy.

San Francisco author Joseph Sutton, who has been keeping an ongoing journal since 1970, tells the reader what was going on in the country and in his own life in JOURNAL 2022: One Year in a Writer’s Life. In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there were mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, and the January 6th Committee Hearings took place. Sutton airs his thoughts on those events and writes about coming down with COVID-19, having temporary hearing loss in one ear, and having four teeth removed, among other things.

Journal 2005: Hip Surgery and the Bush2 Administration is the 17th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. In this one year journal, Sutton writes about his recovery from a second hip replacement operation. He also shows his contempt for the George W. Bush administration for deceiving the American people about starting a war with Iraq without any proven justification.

This novel takes place in 1974—a few months before President Nixon resigned from office because of Watergate. The country is in turmoil, as is writer Jake Massry. The woman Jake lives with leaves him for another man because he can't succeed as a writer, and Jake's old-world father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a "real" job. To get his head straight, Jake hits the open road in Old Bones, his worn-out VW bus, in search of himself and America. As he travels from place to place in Old Bones (or rather pushes him), Jake meets a colorful cast of characters: sexy women, gays, born-again ...