{"id":7734,"date":"2017-10-21T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=7734"},"modified":"2017-10-21T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T16:42:47","slug":"perpetuating-trouble-im-livin-the-dream-or-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/perpetuating-trouble-im-livin-the-dream-or-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetuating Trouble: I\u2019m Livin\u2019 the Dream! Or Am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Perpetuating_Trouble-Master_18_Ebook_Cover_1000x1600px\"I\u2019m pleased to announce the release of my per\u00adson\u00adal mem\u00adoir about the writ\u00ading life, Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading Trou\u00adble<\/em><\/strong>. I\u2019ve been work\u00ading on this book on and off since 2008, and am final\u00adly ready to send it into the world.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to read more about the mem\u00adoir, check out this link<\/a>, or sim\u00adply read the press release below.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

HUMOROUS MEMOIR DE-ROMANTICIZES THE WRITING LIFE<\/b><\/p>\n

Award-win\u00adning Nov\u00adel\u00adist Frankly Describes \u201cLivin\u2019 the Dream\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Like many full-time nov\u00adel\u00adists, Chris Orcutt has been told by read\u00aders, doc\u00adtors, lawyers\u2014even Hol\u00adly\u00adwood screenwriters\u2014that he\u2019s \u201clivin\u2019 the dream.\u201d All of them, Orcutt has learned, have an ide\u00adal\u00adized vision of the writ\u00ading life.<\/p>\n

In his humor\u00adous mem\u00adoir Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading Trou\u00adble<\/i><\/b>, Orcutt debunks the myths, reveal\u00ading that the writ\u00ading life is real\u00adly one of crush\u00ading soli\u00adtude, chron\u00adic dis\u00adsat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion, mood swings and self-doubt, and where suc\u00adcess\u00ades, when they come, are like din\u00ader mints\u2014sweet, but short-lived.<\/p>\n

\u201cI avoid\u00aded writ\u00aders very care\u00adful\u00adly because they can per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adate trou\u00adble as no one else can,\u201d wrote F. Scott Fitzger\u00adald. In Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading Trou\u00adble<\/i><\/b>, Chris Orcutt shows how true this is. Whether divest\u00ading him\u00adself of a hoard of tacky paint\u00adings, using phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy to get out of a traf\u00adfic tick\u00adet, endur\u00ading a prostate exam, steal\u00ading a type\u00adwriter, or pick\u00ading up two female hitch\u00adhik\u00aders who lat\u00ader turn out to be aliens from anoth\u00ader plan\u00adet, Orcutt finds the humor and the art in his tri\u00adals. It\u2019s also a life of love and sad\u00adness, as he recounts a whirl\u00adwind love affair with a rav\u00adish\u00ading red\u00adhead, and the death of his beloved writ\u00ading com\u00adpan\u00adion, his cat.<\/p>\n

Orcutt, who has been writ\u00ading pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly for 25 years, notes that the pub\u00adlish\u00ading indus\u00adtry prop\u00ada\u00adgates the myth of writ\u00ading being a glam\u00adorous life, an easy path to fame and rich\u00ades. \u201cGo into any book\u00adstore, and you\u2019ll find hun\u00addreds of books with titles like How to Write a Best\u00adseller in Ten Easy Steps<\/i>,\u201d Orcutt says. \u201cCol\u00adleges across the coun\u00adtry irre\u00adspon\u00adsi\u00adbly offer MFA degrees as mag\u00adic keys to the writ\u00ading king\u00addom. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, there are no keys to the king\u00addom. There are no \u2018best prac\u00adtices.\u2019 And there\u2019s only one short\u00adcut: the knowl\u00adedge that there are no short\u00adcuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides being a humor\u00adous cau\u00adtion\u00adary tale, Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading Trou\u00adble<\/i> <\/b>chron\u00adi\u00adcles one writer\u2019s every\u00adday life away from the writ\u00ading desk, where his deep love of lan\u00adguage, his saint\u00adly wife, and his indomitable sense of humor keep him going.<\/p>\n

Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading Trou\u00adble<\/i><\/b> is Orcutt\u2019s tenth book, and by far his most per\u00adson\u00adal work to date.<\/p>\n

Chris Orcutt is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal writer based in Mill\u00adbrook, NY. He has worked as an adjunct pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of writ\u00ading and lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, a speech\u00adwriter and a jour\u00adnal\u00adist.<\/p>\n

Orcutt\u2019s crit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly acclaimed, best\u00adselling mys\u00adtery series fea\u00adtures Man\u00adhat\u00adtan PI Dako\u00adta Stevens and his beau\u00adti\u00adful chess grand\u00admas\u00adter asso\u00adciate Svet\u00adlana Kr\u00fcsh. Orcutt\u2019s short sto\u00adry col\u00adlec\u00adtion, The Man, The Myth, The Leg\u00adend<\/i>, was award\u00aded by IndieRead\u00ader as \u201cOne of the Best Books of 2013.\u201d His mod\u00adern pas\u00adtoral nov\u00adel, One Hun\u00addred Miles from Man\u00adhat\u00adtan<\/i>, was award\u00aded by IndieRead\u00ader as a \u201cBest Book of 2014,\u201d and in its review of the nov\u00adel Kirkus Reviews<\/i> favor\u00adably com\u00adpared Orcutt to Pulitzer Prize-win\u00adning author John Cheev\u00ader.<\/p>\n

For more infor\u00adma\u00adtion about Chris Orcutt, please vis\u00adit www.orcutt.net<\/span>, Face\u00adbook or @ChrisOrcutt on Twit\u00adter.<\/p>\n

Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading Trou\u00adble<\/i><\/b>, and Orcutt\u2019s nov\u00adels, plays and short sto\u00adries, are avail\u00adable in print at CreateSpace.com and Amazon.com, and in ebook form on all major plat\u00adforms.<\/p>\n

EBOOK REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

To buy a copy of Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading Trou\u00adble<\/em><\/strong>, vis\u00adit my Buy Books<\/a> page. Thank you.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Perpetuating_Trouble_meme_1\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m pleased to announce the release of my per\u00adson\u00adal mem\u00adoir about the writ\u00ading life, Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading Trou\u00adble. I\u2019ve been work\u00ading on this book on and off since\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,246,30,3,244,19,251,33,20,245,21,75,36,337,7,76,8,63,68,208,24,32,292,270,13,14,233],"tags":[124,136,94,165,211,161,328,357,107,162,125,109,111,96,95,155,356,104,210,212,222,302,221,93,355],"class_list":["post-7734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazon-kindle","category-apple-ibooks","category-chris-orcutt-books","category-craft","category-ebooks","category-fiction","category-google-play-books","category-indie-publishing","category-journalism","category-kindle","category-kindlestuff","category-memoir","category-mystery-writing","category-novel-writing","category-personal","category-process","category-publishingandthemarket","category-rejections","category-rewriting","category-social-media","category-speechwriting","category-travel","category-vermont","category-workspace","category-writers","category-writingexperiences","category-writing-life","tag-amazon","tag-authorship","tag-chris-orcutt","tag-ebooks","tag-facebook","tag-google-play","tag-humor","tag-humorous-memoir","tag-inspiration","tag-itunes","tag-kdp","tag-literary","tag-memoir-2","tag-novelist","tag-novels-2","tag-orcutt","tag-publishing","tag-redheads","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-vermont","tag-writer","tag-writers-life","tag-writing","tag-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7748,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions\/7748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}