OMG! It’s a Blog!
First things first…
Backbone is scheduled for general release on August 31st, 2015. Yea! Here’s a little eye candy in the meantime…
Okay, here it goes…
A blog.
Wouldn’t it be helpful if I had something to say?
Well, a picture’s worth a thousand words, so I posted a picture of the cover of my first book. Woo hoo! But I’m right in the middle of the first-time publication process and trying to find my happy place in the midst of all this change and uncertainty and potential disaster—
No, not potential disaster. Bad inner voice!
No matter what happens, this is a spectacular experience. Getting that email – Yea! A contract! Signing the contract, filling out forms, creating blurbs and taglines, then completing the edits. Exciting!
But, for me, the biggest “Oh, no!” was creating the dreaded Social Media Platform. In my real life, Face Book is an icon on my phone. I realized that people used it because I’d get email notifications of status changes, new pictures, comments, etc., etc.
Twitter? It looked weird. What was a tweet? It looked complicated. What was a hashtag? Why did I want to use a hashtag? Never mind, I don’t have time to tweet.
But that was before—before Kayleigh Sky and Backbone came along. Oh, I can do a lot for Backbone that I’d never do for just me. I love Backbone! That’s my book. LOOK AT THAT COVER!! I have an obligation not just to Brey and Hank, my MCs, but to everybody who had enough faith to put their efforts behind publishing it.
And I love Brey and Hank (and the guys in my next story!). I love men in love. It’s hot. I like to read about it. I like to think about it. I like to write about it. Sex is hot. I see the elements of it in everything around me. It’s just how I see the world, and since I really like men… well, writing about men in love just makes sense.
So I owe it to Backbone, and all the books that may come, to – I don’t know… tweet.
And maybe blog. So I have my webpage, Face Book Fan Page and *sigh* my blog. And who knew—tweeting’s not that bad.
But the social media thing—that never went together in my head with writing. Writing is—hello—telling stories, not telling people that you’ve just told a story and, “Gee, wouldn’t it be cool if you’d buy my story”. I mean, where are the good old days when writing was—well, writing…?
But, now that I’m doing it, this isn’t so bad. If I have readers, then I’m talking to my readers. That’s awesome! This is a whole new world for me. And not an easy one to get to, let me tell you. After a life of roadblocks, detours, and sinkholes, I’d pretty much figured out I was never going to have the time to write again. Then a voice in my head woke me up at 5 am on a Saturday morning in May and said, “Get up. Write your book.” Well, who’s going to argue with a voice that thinks its message is too damn important to wait until 7 am?
I got up. I wrote my book. Here I am.
Moral of the story—Get up and write. Or dance. Or take photographs. Or paint. Or whatever. But never, ever ignore the voice that tells you it’s time to make your dreams come true.
And this is why I’m trying the social media thing—because it’s not enough to wish for a thing. You’ve got to scrape, scrabble, kick, punch, bite—literary license here. I’m really just tweeting. And blogging. To you. Because words on paper only mean anything if there’s somebody out there to read them. It’s kind of like that tree in a forest thing—frankly I think a tree really does make a sound if it falls in a forest when there’s nobody to hear it, but that’s just me.
My blog. My ramblings. MY COVER!
Remember to make your dreams come true—and always soar!
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