Nephylim's Blog - Posts Tagged "deadlines"
My Experiences With Publicity.
I can't believe my last post was May. Time goes so fast.
As you know (If anyone is reading at all) that I came to this game (being a published author) totally virgin and wide eyed and an utter newbie to the world of self publicizing. My journey thus far has had good and bad twists and turns.
On the good side, I've created a blog I'm truly proud of nephylim-author.blogspot.com met a lot of wonderful people, made friends, learned how to use twitter, goodreads, tumblr... and that I can't possibly handle all of them at once.
At the moment I'm excited about twitter. I've gone from 80 to over 1100 followers in a couple of weeks and no, I haven't joined any groups or added any widgets. I've thought of it. After all publicity is good... but I feel that what's more important, for me, is that the people who follow me, follow ME no just some random @ they follow because they're told/asked to. Naive maybe, but that's me. I'm also spending far too much time reading and commenting on blogs just because people have followed me... and of course there are all the books I'm buying and not reading :)
I've started to write my first ever collaboration and we're currently working on Book 6.
My publisher is awesome and has been nothing but supportive.
On the downside... Editors. I have to say that, thus far editing has not been a positive experience for me, at all. There has only been one occasion when I have truly 'worked with' my editor in the way I'd hoped I would and I have heard others say they have.
Having said that, some great work has come from the conflict and I've learned a lot and improved my writing. I'm not so conceited I won't acknowledge that even the bad experiences have taught me a lot, even if some of them have been to be a lot more cautious about who I trust and who I put my faith in.
I have to admit too that the worst conflict has taught me the most. I've gone from vowing I would never work with that editor again to actually looking forward to doing so (if she'll have me :) )
Recently I've been throwing myself into publicising my new book The Runaway in a way I've never advertised before.
I've created a page on my blog, paid for a web banner to be created, which I'm using all over the place, had the cover specially designed from original art (by my friend Maria... for more of her wonderful work visit my blog, it's everywhere), am working with another artist to create a trailer (which is wildly exciting but also a lot more expensive than I thought), tweeted and facebooked like crazy, organised interviews and blogged excerpts and interesting snippets.
it's taken a heck of a lot of energy, but has been a lot of fun.
However, it's now hit a wall in that I've been told it won't actually be ready for release when I thought it would and I can't get any committment for a release date, which means my publicising has ground to a halt.
Do i go ahead with a 'coming soon' when I've already said August? Or do I wait until i have a firm date. The authorities are divided. As a newbie I'm finding it hard to make the decision as I don't have any experience to fall back on. Advice would be welcome, as would any advice as to what else I can be doing.
As you know (If anyone is reading at all) that I came to this game (being a published author) totally virgin and wide eyed and an utter newbie to the world of self publicizing. My journey thus far has had good and bad twists and turns.
On the good side, I've created a blog I'm truly proud of nephylim-author.blogspot.com met a lot of wonderful people, made friends, learned how to use twitter, goodreads, tumblr... and that I can't possibly handle all of them at once.
At the moment I'm excited about twitter. I've gone from 80 to over 1100 followers in a couple of weeks and no, I haven't joined any groups or added any widgets. I've thought of it. After all publicity is good... but I feel that what's more important, for me, is that the people who follow me, follow ME no just some random @ they follow because they're told/asked to. Naive maybe, but that's me. I'm also spending far too much time reading and commenting on blogs just because people have followed me... and of course there are all the books I'm buying and not reading :)
I've started to write my first ever collaboration and we're currently working on Book 6.
My publisher is awesome and has been nothing but supportive.
On the downside... Editors. I have to say that, thus far editing has not been a positive experience for me, at all. There has only been one occasion when I have truly 'worked with' my editor in the way I'd hoped I would and I have heard others say they have.
Having said that, some great work has come from the conflict and I've learned a lot and improved my writing. I'm not so conceited I won't acknowledge that even the bad experiences have taught me a lot, even if some of them have been to be a lot more cautious about who I trust and who I put my faith in.
I have to admit too that the worst conflict has taught me the most. I've gone from vowing I would never work with that editor again to actually looking forward to doing so (if she'll have me :) )
Recently I've been throwing myself into publicising my new book The Runaway in a way I've never advertised before.
I've created a page on my blog, paid for a web banner to be created, which I'm using all over the place, had the cover specially designed from original art (by my friend Maria... for more of her wonderful work visit my blog, it's everywhere), am working with another artist to create a trailer (which is wildly exciting but also a lot more expensive than I thought), tweeted and facebooked like crazy, organised interviews and blogged excerpts and interesting snippets.
it's taken a heck of a lot of energy, but has been a lot of fun.
However, it's now hit a wall in that I've been told it won't actually be ready for release when I thought it would and I can't get any committment for a release date, which means my publicising has ground to a halt.
Do i go ahead with a 'coming soon' when I've already said August? Or do I wait until i have a firm date. The authorities are divided. As a newbie I'm finding it hard to make the decision as I don't have any experience to fall back on. Advice would be welcome, as would any advice as to what else I can be doing.
