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Volume 78, Issue 4 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
Sept. 21, 2012
BC professor's book published
By Alex McCracken
Arts_&_LifeJEditoi_^_
In just a few weeks, Brevard College’s
own Jubal Tiner gets his own book. His short
story collection, The Waterhouse, is being
published by Press 53 and you can get your
own copy from their website for a paltry
twenty bucks. I’ll wait.
Got it? Good. You can expect it sometime
in early October, but in the mean time, I sat
down with the professor to get an idea of what
it takes to get where he’s gotten.
The bulk of the book is taken from his 2000
dissertation of the same name, with a new
story here and there. That’s just how long it
takes to get published, almost twelve years.
While giving the interview I was facing a fish
bowl full of letters on his desk. The label: “not
just rejections.”
All it really takes to get set in the writing
business is the right “In,” the perfect
introduction or connection to get everything
else lined up. Professor Tiner found that in
Press 53 founder Kevin Morgan Watson.
"He used to, you know, ‘jam ’with the guitar
player of my all-time favorite band when he
was growing up, on his front porch. It was my
favorite band. The Rainmakers. Made it big
in Kansas city, also huge in Norway. ’’
"They were Rolling Stone’s #1 new band
the year they came out... so anyway, it was
this instant connection with this funky-cool
band NOBODY knows about, and he was just
a good guy. So it was another six months, I
got a message that he’d read the stories,
asked ‘what is this? ’ etcetera. So 1 sent him
the whole thing.
“ ‘This is a great thing, ’ he said, ‘Because
even if we don’t publish your book it’s good
press for you as an author’ I thought, that’s
it, he’s gonna pass , you know?, so we
were working on the gallies and there was
something wrong in my bio. I told him and
he sent me back the final proof copy edit and
he had made the correct change, but then at
the bottom, there was this added line that
said ‘Jubal Tiner’s The Waterhouse: short
story collection forthcoming from Press 53
in 2012. ’
“But he wouldn’t tell me, and I thought
‘oh my god, this is a mistake ’so 1 wrote back
saying it all looked great and that 1 looked
forward to working with you on the book,
and uh, he wrote back right away and said
‘So am I. ’ ’’
Brevard College English professor Jubal Tiner's short story collection The Waterhouse
will be available for sale this month from Press 53.