As the poet Andrew Marvell said, 'And at my back I always hear/Time's winged chariot hurrying near.' 'Where did the years go?' some senior citizens might ask.
I am borrowing it as the title for this column that deals with my passage into senior citizenship two weeks from now.As the poet Andrew Marvell said, 'And at my back I always hear/Time's winged chariot hurrying near.' 'Where did the years go?' some senior citizens might ask.
It lost in a writing contest in the Philippines; a local publisher wanted me to rewrite it, and another local publisher wanted me to turn it into a Young Adult Novel. Anvil finally published it in 2015, and it promptly sold out.When there were no more copies in print, I revised the novel and sent it to Penguin Random House, which was looking for manuscripts in 2019. It was immediately accepted and got published in April 2020 — right in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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