#feministfriday episode 262 | The Best Thing I Have Ever Done
Good morning everyone,
Do you remember last week when I said I would have huge news this week? Well here it is, I hope you are excited for it; for the last ten years, I've been collecting and editing the complete short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and now I… have done it! Here they all are in their five volumes!
It is 183 stories and 1.01M words. The stories have never before been collected in a single edition. Three of them have never even been published in a book before because Fitzgerald's daughter (name: Frances Scott Fitzgerald) suppressed them to protect her father's legacy. But they are in my book; Scott Fitzgerald wrote an extremely limited number of stories set in the medieval age in which all the peasants talk like sharecroppers and the hero is, I regret to inform you, Sexy Hemingway.
We will get to the blog post where I explain the project in a minute, but first, I want to break an ironclad Fem Fri rule and ask for a favour. No is an okay answer. Because of the vagaries of copyright law, I can't sell these volumes at any sort of scale. I'm looking to work with a publisher to get them fully out into the world, and it will very much help to get the fact that I have done this "out there". So if you would share it with your friends and network and websites you own and write for, I would appreciate that tremendously. Thank you.
On which note, here is my blog post:
In 2010, I awoke with the clearest vision and the purest happiness I have ever felt upon waking up. I woke up knowing, firstly that it was possible for me to collect the complete short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, secondly that it was possible to print them in a proper book, and finally that I could do both of these things and then read them all. This year, I finally completed this project. Before now, no truly complete collection of Fitzgerald’s stories existed.
https://medium.com/@Vincennes/how-i-collected-the-complete-short-stories-of-f-scott-fitzgerald-e98221048fab
Here are posts on other platforms if that is your preferred mode of getting things "out there":
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vincennes/status/1174225082144743424
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexandramitchell/posts/10103353102941990
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexandracmitchell_how-i-collected-the-complete-short-stories-activity-6579991194024181761-cplR
THANK YOU EVERYONE who has already seen this and been kind about it on the internet. It is so exciting for me to talk about what has been a huge part of my life for so long, thank you for sharing this time with me. đź’—
A xx.
PS: It just doesn't feel right to send out a Fem Fri of purely Alex content. Please enjoy The Great Gatsby as glossed by Kate Beaton, click for the full thing, I will never stop laughing at this:
