What did you blog about today?

[pambaddeley]

Just a writing progress update plus initial thoughts on finally joining Twitter ... Camping out under the Writerly Stars – Pam Baddeley, Writer

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Here we go, then - are we letting the readers down by not celebrating self-published success as much as trad?

JoZebwrites: EVER HEARD OF….?

 

[thaddeus6th]

I think that's a good point. The problem is that the market's saturated and self-publishing still is seen, by many, as being for those not good enough to be traditionally published. I, by chance, bought my mother a self-published book for Christmas (didn't realise until after I'd bought it). She really liked it, and now my dad's reading it. Doubt either would've realised had I not mentioned it.

 

[ratsy]

I posted about the release day for The Haunting of Lake Manor Hotel!

Release day!

 

[Ray McCarthy]

I posted about the release day for "The Apprentice's Talent"!

Release day is 18th April 2016 (Provisionally)

 

[millymollymo]

Authors...dear, sweet authors, if you don't ask you won't get.
If You Don’t Ask.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Good advice there, Triple-M.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

If anyone wants to review any of my books, or provide some feedback for the many not published yet (in various stages of polish or edit), just ask via the contact form (see list here), or PM here. Don't forget a working email address for the Mobi/Kindle compatible copy (free apps for every platform as the Kindle PC app works under WINE), or I can supply ePub or PDF.

Thanks @millymollymo

This week I'm polishing Blurbs and Covers.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Authors...dear, sweet authors, if you don't ask you won't get.
If You Don’t Ask.

This. Lots of people ask me how I managed to get so much coverage in my first year and this is it. I asked, I pleaded, I blagged, I begged.

 

[Juliana]

Great advice, @millymollymo! Good blog post.

 

[Gonk the Insane]

Spotlight on Writing Horror with Gwendolyn Kiste and Scarlett R. Algee

Nice article, Juliana. I'm pretty sure that the Games of Thrones reference in the second paragraph should be "Wight Walkers" rather than "White Walkers". But not entirely sure.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Hopefully I will catch up on all of your blogs over the next day or so.

Finding time for finding time… is my latest blog post. Just about the difficulties of finding time and the importance if you want a successful blog.

Hopefully now a big contract is behind me I can start focusing on the site.

 

[Juliana]

Nice article, Juliana.

Thanks Gonk! Definitely White, though Wight makes so much more sense that I actually had to go and double check. I guess GRRM didn't want to risk the pun police...

@SilentRoamer I agree; finding blogging time can be a real challenge at times! But I do enjoy it..

EDIT: New blog post up today, on Peter Pan.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

I added my blurb for "The Apprentice's Talent".

I've been advised I should change it regularly on Amazon (and maybe Smashwords?).

finding blogging time can be a real challenge at times!

I'd like to do more articles on my various websites, but find writing the novels takes up too much time!

 

[thaddeus6th]

One book out last week, another book out next week, so I decided to go for a musical interlude:
Thaddeus the Sixth: Fantastical music

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Busy little bloggers. (I had a musical week, too, Thad - I went to see Muse live, which was on the bucket list, and they were awesome.)

Anyhow, I blogged about why it's great to be a wannabe. I think @Teresa Edgerton will smile at this.

JoZebwrites: WHAT DO YOU WANNABE?

 

[Ray McCarthy]

I blogged about why it's great to be a wannabe.

But

Although I’d accept that George Martin might be above it

Isn't he dead and wasn't well known for writing... I'm not that impressed with G.R.R. Martin either, I think you are better?

I thought a "wannabe" writer was was the kind of guy that has a cravat, funny hat, copies mannerisms of famous writers (Hemmingway's drinking?) maybe used to talk about typewriters, now about Apples and Scrivener ... but no-one has ever seen any of their writing.

You're write, it's an achievement to right 80K words and stick them up on Amazon. Rather than talking about it at parties or in bars.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

But

Isn't he dead and wasn't well known for writing... I'm not that impressed with G.R.R. Martin either, I think you are better?

I thought a "wannabe" writer was was the kind of guy that has a cravat, funny hat, copies mannerisms of famous writers (Hemmingway's drinking?) maybe used to talk about typewriters, now about Apples and Scrivener ... but no-one has ever seen any of their writing.

You're write, it's an achievement to right 80K words and stick them up on Amazon. Rather than talking about it at parties or in bars.

It seems definititions vary. From the guy with the cravat to anyone not with a top publisher and popular as hell was a wannabe. Which is cool because if you're a wannabe you've got places to go.

 

[Juliana]

Dammit, Zebedee, now I have the Spice Girls stuck in my brain!

But seriously, nice piece. Reminds me of a talk by the very lovely Kate Messner where she said that we're never happy as writers. We finish a novel, and instead of celebrating we feel bad that we don't have an agent. We get an agent, but we then need a publishing deal. We get a deal, but then we want to make a best-seller's list. We make the list, but then we want to win an award. There's always a step further to go, and sometimes we forget to celebrate the successes because we're always worrying that if we don't make that next step we're a failure...

 

[Ray McCarthy]

We finish a novel, and instead of celebrating

That's human standard psychology. Depression is normal and to be expected even on successful completion of a creative project. Once you realise it, it's liberating The addict starts a new project