Maybe I have to take some pages out. Do you have any reservations about this type of intervention?
None. I would take several.
It's the editor's job.
Clear; mine too. It's not self-critical, maybe a minimum of hygiene.
Maybe I'll make a bigger cut than you expect.
I would actually like a reasonable cut.
I have never met writers with this good will.
No goodwill; I'm not a writer. I write. Writers give interviews, autographs, appear on TV. Someone has to just write.
The book may be smaller than you would like.
I wish it were tiny. It will probably get better, or even bearable, but brief.
I like irony.
I must take out many pages on my own. Maybe I'll take different pages than you would.
Perhaps. How would we get this right?
We'll keep the 419 at any price. Other than that, nothing matters.
Because? Is it great?
Not. But I want to have the illusion of control. And maybe the book will really shine.
With editing work?
Yup. See, if we take the same pages, possibly not. But if we disagree and keep taking out pages until only the cover, the index and the 419 are left, and we can never miss this opportunity to keep the 419, maybe then things will get great.
I don't trust what you say.
Me neither. I trust even less what I write.
This is common among authors. I trust what you write.
And yet, without reading, he has already decided to take pages.
Would you like a coffee?
If you can discuss the quality after taking it, always.
Honestly, I need professional help.
Any help. As long as they are professionals.


I believe we should talk. Remotely. We're coming out of a pandemic, and I don't want more guilt than I already have.

I wrote some books, many chronicles. I'm proud, maybe unduly but still proud, of what I still think is good.
I also wrote, and produced, many things that I'm not proud of, from commercials to goodbye letters, from impudent e-mails to SMSs with mistakes in Portuguese, or without mistakes, with the broker on, but with things I wouldn't write if had thought. I sent messages to WhatsApp groups when they were actually meant for a specific person. Perhaps a faulty act, perhaps incompetence, certainly stupidity.
I have awards, a few, but as a designer, art director, and with a work that is starting to have semi-ridiculous visibility as an artist. I have a lot more besides, it's worth reading my CV because it's long and I like to brag about nothing. My family still doesn't know exactly what I do. As I know they are busy, I summarized. You, I imagine, are busy, not my family. Follow the CV at the end of this presentation. I want confetti.

As a writer I have no awards. I have no agents, no editors. Not contracts. Not certainties. I could get all this done before our conversation, but it would take some time, and I'm in a hurry. I'm certainly in a hurry. We are on the 980th of March, and March this year, which is the same year as the year before, looks like it will go on until the end of next year. I won't wait any longer.
I have texts. Good. Best. Some great. Some that I don't think are great but you will find them great. Even if they deny it.

I wrote a children's story that I think will be a worldwide hit, if anyone can translate it. Otherwise it will be a success in two or three neighborhoods of SP, even so, a success. We will not research the opinions of other neighborhoods, and if we do, I will publicly criticize the methodology.
Modesty is useful for weaklings and journalists.
The story, THE FIXER, follows for your enjoyment, along with other excerpts from my work.
I'm looking for a conversation about how we can collaborate.

My intention is to dominate Brazil, Argentina/Uruguay, New York, Mexico, Alaska, Germany, Moscow, Sudan, Madagascar, Aral, Omsk, Vladivostok, all of Oceania, conquer 22 territories and destroy the red army or convince them to wear black .
Also, I want to find a(@) agent who thinks I'm great without questioning their own criteria and an(@) editor(@) who simply enjoys taking the same risks as me,
or at least allow me to break deadlines in peace.

I want many more things, I was born with ambitions much greater and more frequent than my occasional competences,
but I'm sorry, I don't know you, I'm suspicious, let's take it easy, I'm not going to tell you everything easily.

Biggest hug (now that we are vaccinated);
I wish you the best that we have available.

But receive me. We will rule the world.

Maurício Trentin