elizaPress Publications, eclectic anthologies, elizaBeth Benson-Udom as writressworder.com

Over a lifetime of making, one must choose: to keep it all to one's self, or to risk to share. This is the "stuff"--the books, the words, the musings, the ideas, the eclectic anthologies, the anecdotes, the antidotes that seem to have helped me. I've written words nearly every day--words strung into sentences, carved out of stillnesses and left on the waiting page. Here, in this simple way, i risk to share what i have to say. i wrote this to a writer i met on a BART who was weighing the input of many friends regarding the wild ideas that were coming to her about how she might sell her work: i have written many, many books, made many pieces of art, offered cookies and cupcakes to many children in lots of different realms. and have not figured out MY way to sell MY work. but i make it. i put it in the world where it is available to people. i invite people to know about it. i grow my book trees one blog entry at a time and harvest them every six months in blook form. i throw a party for myself. i invite people to it. sometimes they come. sometimes they buy or tell me they want to buy a book. what matters to ME is that i have written it. i put it in the world. now, it is there for my children to read when i die or for my friends to find or for someone i will never meet to trip into and find what they find in it. Thank you for tripping...