promotional news

I've been doing quite a bit of promotional work for Warrior and Witch recently. To begin with, there's the somewhat unexpected venue of the Romantic Times Book Club; I discovered when they reviewed Doppelganger (and gave it a high rating!) that they apparently cover a far wider range of fiction than their name would suggest. I've been interviewed for their October issue, and they'll also be running a short essay of mine on the website, regarding Warrior and Witch and my experiences writing it.

Separately from that, I've also been interviewed by one of the Culture Vultures at Sequential Tart; once again, I don't fit into the mainstream of what they cover, but they've taken an interest in me nevertheless. That one really illustrated to me why Big Name Authors often have to turn down interview requests; answering the questions was a lengthy process, with me tackling a few, wandering away, coming back a few hours later and doing another one, etc. You have to think about, not just your answer, but how to make that answer interesting, and how to do so in a relatively concise manner. I imagine "interview answers" will prove to be its own micro-genre of writing, like "cover copy" and "author bio."

Then there's a bit of promotion I didn't have to do the work for: a nice person named Joana Rodriguez has, with my permission, created a fanlisting for my writing. Fanlistings aren't something I was aware of before, but they're basically web-based networks of fans for particular writers/TV shows/whatever. Check out the above link to see the site she put together for it, and to sign up.

That's it for the moment, I think, though I have a few other promotional schemes in the works. This is, I must admit, the part of the "being a writer" business I'm probably the worst at; I can get myself to conventions and on panels there, but aside from that, I'm not very good at pimping my work. I'm learning, but it's a slow process.

Updates will, of course, be provided when the aforementioned interviews and such go live.