All the news that fits, we print
Jan. 30th, 2006 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalannaAs part of the Amazon Connect program for authors, Amazon has set up author's weblog pages.
Here's my Amazon Author Weblog!
I think that's neat. I keep getting reviews from people I don't know and who haven't (so far as I know) been on this LiveJournal. It's so cool to see the book moving through word-of-mouth (it certainly hasn't had any promotion or publicity, seeing as how Mama got sick right after its publication and I was busy with that--I did have a Dallas/Fort Worth book tour, sponsored by my ownself). The latest review is from a fellow who said it hooked him from page one. Take that, editors! Take that, agents! Take that, unbelievers! **GRIN**
He must be a Harry Potter reader who likes the details of spells--get me more of those readers. He says, though, that he thought I wrapped things up too neatly in the last paragraph, while he'd have liked to see more of a wrap-up. I agree that I did have to end somewhat in the middle of things, but that's because it was time to break for the sequel. A book can only be so long! The sequel is still here on my desk; I didn't want to place it with the same company, but wanted it to go to New York. But on the other hand, you'd have to have read the first book to really enjoy it . . . it wouldn't work to publish the sequel first and then use _Dulcinea_ as a prequel. At least I don't think it would. _Dulcinea_ *almost* won that first Warner contest. (Somebody said in an earlier comment that he/she was going to go out and read the contest winner and get back to me with a review, but nobody ever did that. Are you still out there? Did you ever get a round tuit?) She has found a small dedicated audience. That's so neat.
Anyroad, it's cool to have an Amazon-page presence. I'm not going to be one of those people who never talks about anything but promotes her/his stuff instead. I'm going to post content that gives some clue as to how I write so they'll know whether they'd like the books. Make sense?
Of course, this is still the place for all the news that fits ("all the news that fits, we print"--bahstad-ized slogan of NYT)
Here's my Amazon Author Weblog!
I think that's neat. I keep getting reviews from people I don't know and who haven't (so far as I know) been on this LiveJournal. It's so cool to see the book moving through word-of-mouth (it certainly hasn't had any promotion or publicity, seeing as how Mama got sick right after its publication and I was busy with that--I did have a Dallas/Fort Worth book tour, sponsored by my ownself). The latest review is from a fellow who said it hooked him from page one. Take that, editors! Take that, agents! Take that, unbelievers! **GRIN**
He must be a Harry Potter reader who likes the details of spells--get me more of those readers. He says, though, that he thought I wrapped things up too neatly in the last paragraph, while he'd have liked to see more of a wrap-up. I agree that I did have to end somewhat in the middle of things, but that's because it was time to break for the sequel. A book can only be so long! The sequel is still here on my desk; I didn't want to place it with the same company, but wanted it to go to New York. But on the other hand, you'd have to have read the first book to really enjoy it . . . it wouldn't work to publish the sequel first and then use _Dulcinea_ as a prequel. At least I don't think it would. _Dulcinea_ *almost* won that first Warner contest. (Somebody said in an earlier comment that he/she was going to go out and read the contest winner and get back to me with a review, but nobody ever did that. Are you still out there? Did you ever get a round tuit?) She has found a small dedicated audience. That's so neat.
Anyroad, it's cool to have an Amazon-page presence. I'm not going to be one of those people who never talks about anything but promotes her/his stuff instead. I'm going to post content that gives some clue as to how I write so they'll know whether they'd like the books. Make sense?
Of course, this is still the place for all the news that fits ("all the news that fits, we print"--bahstad-ized slogan of NYT)
