Just a quick line--I follow you on Twitter (my handle is @philrossi) and I applaud how you are taking a big, fistful of the promotional reigns. I dig seeing established authors using social network tools to enhance their fan outreach. It's had an inspiring impact on my writing and self-promotion.
Thanks for saying so. See, I have this dread that people are perceiving me as a spammer, and I've been worried about that, how I'm using Twitter.
ruly, it was an act of selling one book at a time. It becomes an obsessive activity and by the second week of July, I felt more like a pimp than a writer--minus the cane, fun hat, and white fur coat. I hate numbers, but numbers aren't going away.
I think it's weighing so on me right now because I've been at this since 1998, when Penguin released my first novel. Since then, they've released six (counting The Red Tree), and there have been many, many books from other publishers, and I'm exhausted, and it just seems it should have gotten easier, not harder. I know there's no truth to that. For most of us, it never gets any easier, but still.
Oh..and another thing. My sister lives in Jamestown and now you've got me thinking about Beavertail and the Ganny!
Jamestown is one of the places I wish I'd moved instead of Providence.
Re: Promotion
Just a quick line--I follow you on Twitter (my handle is @philrossi) and I applaud how you are taking a big, fistful of the promotional reigns. I dig seeing established authors using social network tools to enhance their fan outreach. It's had an inspiring impact on my writing and self-promotion.
Thanks for saying so. See, I have this dread that people are perceiving me as a spammer, and I've been worried about that, how I'm using Twitter.
ruly, it was an act of selling one book at a time. It becomes an obsessive activity and by the second week of July, I felt more like a pimp than a writer--minus the cane, fun hat, and white fur coat. I hate numbers, but numbers aren't going away.
I think it's weighing so on me right now because I've been at this since 1998, when Penguin released my first novel. Since then, they've released six (counting The Red Tree), and there have been many, many books from other publishers, and I'm exhausted, and it just seems it should have gotten easier, not harder. I know there's no truth to that. For most of us, it never gets any easier, but still.
Oh..and another thing. My sister lives in Jamestown and now you've got me thinking about Beavertail and the Ganny!
Jamestown is one of the places I wish I'd moved instead of Providence.