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Monthly Archives: May 2013

Flurries of activity

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Richard

Great outbursts of activity as publication date approaches…

  • The Cover Reveal will happen on the Facebook page on Sunday night / Monday morning depending on where in the world you are.  Go ahead and like the page if you haven’t already done so; I’m now utterly shameless about plugging myself!
  • Publicists now on board, agreement signed, questionnaire completed, money handed over (gulp) – I had been wavering about it, but the success of my Facebook campaign (see below) has swayed me – people who have never heard of me are at least interested and intrigued enough to investigate and hit the like button – I think this might work…
  • I am an author.  Yes, I know it’s not news, but for the last week and a half I have been (only slightly ostentatiously) carrying around an actual printed copy of my book, and now – after all the toil and tears, I feel like I’m an actual, proper author.  I can put the book on my shelf next to the hundreds I have up there, and it doesn’t look out of place.  I can show it to people and read it in public and generally behave as if it is a real thing, and it feels right; it feels like it’s an actual, you know, book.
  • I finished proof-reading it again this morning, and I was taken aback by how I felt as I turned the last page.  I was gripped by the story; reading it as if I hadn’t seen it before (which, given the surgery I performed on the third part just before I sent it off to be printed, I hadn’t, not properly) and I felt a little like a proud parent – there they were; my characters, beyond my influence now, ready to go off into the world on their own terms.  I feel a little emotional, to be honest.  It’ll pass
  • It’ll pass, because I need to get on with the hard work of getting the book in people’s hands.  My strategy has wavered more times than a particularly wavery thing, but I’m broadly sticking to my plan – ebook version first, which takes the brunt of the publicity effort, then print later, as appropriate.  The thing is, I think I’m going to have to make the print copy available more or less from day 1 as well – it’ll be really interesting to see what happens there, when I’m not pushing it particularly hard.

One more key thing needs to be done before I can start selling online, though – I need an EIN from the US Revenue Service – this is so I don’t pay US tax on anything I sell there.  It’s apparently easy, but I spent half an hour on hold this morning before I gave up, and I don’t feel particularly inclined to try again today.  Maybe in the morning…

Oh, and I keep having ideas for the next book, but no time to write them down in.  Ah, well; time enough for that, I suppose.

Posted in Work in Progress, Writing |

Re: cover

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Richard

I have a cover!  Thanks to Scarlett Rugers, Going Back now has a cover.

No, you can’t see it yet.  Well, a sneak preview:

 

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