I have all kinds of things I want to talk to you about in the coming weeks. I want to tell you about my oddly regressive reaction to a recent rejection and what I learned from it. I want to tell you about my friend Kelly’s new book, how good it is, and how inspired it makes me to get to work myself. I want to tell you about my strange compulsion to look up jobs on AWP’s job list.

But first, I want to tell you about an exciting new blog project I’ve got in the works. To keep things from getting stale here, I’ve decided to line up some interviews with published authors to post on my blog. My idea is to post interviews with authors who published their books in different ways: I’ve got a self-published author lined up, an author whose book was published through a small press, and I plan to get an author who won a book contest and an author whose book was sold by an agent, too. These interviews, which I’m thinking I’ll post over the course of the entire month of March, should provide some interesting insight into the range of publishing options available.

Posting them in March, by the way, will be a nice break for me. Between AWP and another reading in Pittsburgh and final papers to grade and family visiting during spring break, March is going to be a very busy month for me. It’ll be nice to have the interviews all done and ready to post, and basically take a month off from blogging.

If it goes well, I’m thinking I might continue doing interviews now and then on the blog in the future. Let me know if you have any suggested topics or interviewees, and let me know, too—after I post them, of course—what you think of the interviews I’ll be posting in March.