Author Susan Kusher Resnik contributed a helpful blog post about the meaning of success in publishing to Beyond the Margins:
The third definition of the word success, according to my Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, circa 1987, whose cloth cover is shredded like an old dust rag from use, is this:
Favorable or desired outcome; also: the attainment of wealth, favor or eminence.
I find it odd that a forum that divides each shade of meaning so distinctly would bunch those two definitions together. Because they’re clearly different. My second book has already brought me success as defined by the first clause, but it may never get me to the second. And right now, during the third official week of its life as a published entity, that’s fine with me.
You can read the rest of the article by clicking here. Susan Kusher Resnik is most recently the author of GOODBYE WIFES AND DAUGHTERS.
One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. “Goodbye wifes and daughters . . .” wrote two of the miners as they died. The story of that tragic day and its aftermath unfolds in this book through the eyes of those wives and daughters—women who lost their husbands, fathers, and sons, livelihoods, neighbors, and homes, yet managed to fight back and persevere.
