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pen_gruntWell, that’s it. As of 10:30 Friday, I’m a (officially & contractually) published author. I have my page proofs off to the final editor, and I just have to wait until May for a hardcopy.
Dang, I’ze even on Amazon and all that fancy jazz, I’mean shoot!
I’m not sure how I feel about this.
I think I should be happy, but I’m really thinking, “That was easy….TOO easy, what's the catch?” Combined with, “This doesn’t really count, because it’s not a book that I WANTED to write.”
So I have an exclusively corporate book that corporate trainers will (supposedly) buy and put on their resource shelves in their offices. Supposedly I’m supposed to supposedly go on a speaking tour and do some book signings at the places where trainers congregate. Supposedly.
I’m just hoping that this will; a) look super-duper on a resume somewhere in the future, and b) open some doors for me when I do write that “great American novel” and refuse to do Oprah’s book club out of sheer spite (okay, and out of sheer lack of being asked). Yeah, I have low expectations.
Speaking of books, ASOI&F is going along just swimmingly. It's one of those eerie series that I dream about CONSTANTLY. The only other series that I remember doing that with was Robin Hobb's Assassin trilogy and Fool Trilogy. That means they're tre' good :)
Dang, I’ze even on Amazon and all that fancy jazz, I’mean shoot!
I’m not sure how I feel about this.
I think I should be happy, but I’m really thinking, “That was easy….TOO easy, what's the catch?” Combined with, “This doesn’t really count, because it’s not a book that I WANTED to write.”
So I have an exclusively corporate book that corporate trainers will (supposedly) buy and put on their resource shelves in their offices. Supposedly I’m supposed to supposedly go on a speaking tour and do some book signings at the places where trainers congregate. Supposedly.
I’m just hoping that this will; a) look super-duper on a resume somewhere in the future, and b) open some doors for me when I do write that “great American novel” and refuse to do Oprah’s book club out of sheer spite (okay, and out of sheer lack of being asked). Yeah, I have low expectations.
Speaking of books, ASOI&F is going along just swimmingly. It's one of those eerie series that I dream about CONSTANTLY. The only other series that I remember doing that with was Robin Hobb's Assassin trilogy and Fool Trilogy. That means they're tre' good :)
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Date: 2006-01-28 01:36 am (UTC)And ASOI&F had the same effect on me. When is the next book coming out?????
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Date: 2006-01-31 04:50 pm (UTC)So hopefully it will be done in 2006. . . but then there are still 2 more novels left to go (and that could take years). Lets just hope that grrm doesn't die in any way, shape or form before then.
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Date: 2006-02-01 12:31 am (UTC)I read through A Feast for Crows so quickly that my thirst for that world was not slaked.
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Date: 2006-01-31 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-31 04:50 pm (UTC)Resume Builders R Us. . .
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Date: 2006-02-01 02:15 am (UTC)