Cheetah Eats Antelope - LSC Alumni Published

One of Lyndon's own has been published.

 Jenny Rossi, a graduate of 2010 who dual majored in English, published a chapbook, Riches for One, Poverty for Two. Rossi, working part time and full time jobs is still writing on her free time. For her it isn't a joy as much as it is an instinct.

 "I feed on words like a cheetah feeds on antelope" said Rossi in an email.

The idea from the book came from "the economics of being alone", said Rossi. "The way a room is bigger or smaller by those who occupy it."

When writing the book, she limited herself to specific restrictions on top of the ones she had, "140 characters for poetry and 420 for prose... For this published work I felt my style change, getting a little softer, a bit more sly. I went with it."

But writing is not the ideal job says Rossi: "Eventually I'd like to teach writing. For now I just want to survive it."

This book is not the first piece in which she has been published. Rossi has been published in online magazines such as Short, Fast, and Deadly, publishing short prose and flash poetry and Strange Horizons, which features science fiction literature, reviews and poetry. She also has been published in New Verse News, a magazine that featured a piece concerning the lack of federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

Being published is not the easiest thing to accomplish and Rossi knows this.

 "There's a neat process called submission. Writing + Submission = 99% Rejection," Rossi said, though she has a few suggestions about getting your work out there. "I think the best thing a writer can do is start submitting while they're in college. Get a taste for rejection. Find out if you can handle a steady diet. If you can't eat it cold for breakfast -- than try to get business degree instead... revise revise revise."

It doesn't stop right there. "Get your grammar and punctuation straight. Don't look like an idiot more than you can possible help."

Copies of this book can be found online at Deadly Chaps website @ http://www.deadlychaps.com/jrcover.html