Life in my little corner of Paradise has been rather busy of late. Creatively, I’ve been on something of a high — As Morning Shows the Day all but writing itself (the benefit of meticulous outlining, people), the growth of character and plot, the language, feeling more natural than anything I’ve written previously. Naturally, this probably has a great deal to do with the fact that I’ve now had If I Never accepted; having a group of people like those at Legend have such faith in one’s work… well, it just makes me want to write more… and more… and… well, you get the picture.
Things are moving fairly steadily with If I Never. Editorial work should be starting soon and I believe work has begun on the cover design (or it will be fairly shortly, at least.) Very exciting.
I’ve also been looking at different ways to promote myself and my work. My disability inevitably means that some of the promotional opportunities that other writers have simply won’t be possible for me and, so, I intend to play to my strength and do as much promotional work via the Internet as I can.
With this in mind, I’ve now set up a Facebook group. I already have a profile on Facebook, of course, but I’m not entirely comfortable with allowing complete strangers access to this. The group seemed an ideal solution. If you’re at all interested, you can join by clicking on this link. (There isn’t much going on at the moment but that should change in a day or two.)
Of course, not everyone likes Facebook and, so, on the recommendation of a friend in the know, I’m also reopening my MySpace profile (click here.) These on top of my blog and mailing list (not to mention Twitter, where I can often be found holding court and generally making a prat of myself) should provide enough options for the time being. If you have a preferred platform that I haven’t considered, however, please feel free to suggest it. I’ll appreciate it.
Finally, I’m also looking for websites/blogs that might be interested in interviewing me — perhaps to talk about how I came to sell If I Never or, maybe, other aspects of writing. If you know of such a site, or if you’re a blogger or online magazine editor who’s interested, please give me a shout.
Until next time.
I hope all goes well with the book, Gary!
Thanks, Hayley!
It’s still so great to hear how things are going with your book! I can’t imagine how exciting this is for you.
You might want to check this out:
http://www.librarything.com/about#8
It is about authors who have pages and promote themselves at Library Thing.
I forgot to add they have an authors chat area to promote yourself.
http://www.librarything.com/groups/authorchat
That looks potentially really useful. Thank you! 🙂 As for exciting… I’m like a kid at Christmas. I have to do stop myself from getting on the phone to or emailing my publisher saying, “Is it ready, yet? Is the book ready? Is it? Is it? Is it?” 😉
Off to join your group! It’s exciting to hear the progress – thx for sharing!
Thanks for being interested! And great to see you on the group, too!
I can’t watch until it’s published so I can read it…!
Actually, that’s going to be an interesting experience even for me, I suspect. Reading it in book form and not being able to change anything!
Glad to hear things are going well for you, Gary. I’ll keep an eye out for more promotional opportunities and let you know if I hear of anything.
That’s really sweet of you, Lottie. Really means a lot. Thank you xx
I laughed when I read about you having to stop yourself from calling about your book being ready! I can just picture you in my mind, waiting. 🙂
Well, I can’t wait to pop your book up on my Library Thing shelf. I think that will be very cool!
It’s like many things, I suppose — there’s a spurt of activity and then these quiet spells whilst everything goes through its process… and it really does to have plenty of distractions LOL.
I’m really looking forward to hearing what you think about it 🙂 It’s quite an unusual novel, in some respects, but it’s a very human story. Hope you like it.