Time passes like South Dakota's thunderstorms ... whoosh! ... when you're as busy as I have been, trying to get the new book, Confessions of a Martian Schoolgirl, off the ground. Despite the publisher's promise of regular discount to booksellers through national book wholesalers, Ingram has listed the book at 15% instead of regular bookstore discount. LifeRich Publishing is either unwilling or unable to do anything about it, if over two weeks of emails are any proof of it. So -- none of my usual author events are going to take place and I don't blame the bookstores.
So, I'm preparing for my probable only event, on September 21st at the Carl Gipson Senior Center in Everett, hosted by my Creative Writing Group which meets there. I'm going to do readings at 10:15AM and 10:45AM, and books will be available courtesy of the Gipson gift shop. The Q & A portion after the reading is usually fun ... the questions are pretty much the same every place an author event is held. "Have you always wanted to write?" "Where do you get your ideas?" Are your characters based on real life?"
In case we never meet, the answers to the above are "yes," "I usually dream them," and "all except for the sexy chapter in Sweet Grass Season, which is a ;pure figment of the author's imagination!"
One questioner's response to the latter was a chuckle and another query: "Or wishful thinking?" It brought down the house, aptly stealing my thunder.
I really do dream them, the ideas. Usually they flutter on the tip of my brainstem the moment I awaken. A couple of days in bed with the flue recently, though, and rampaging through the gazillion yucky reality shows on TV has influenced my dreams. Wednesday morning I awakened with a cartoon, not a story idea. A cartoon, and I can barely sketch a stick figure.
In the middle stood a business-suited guy with a handful of straws, one shorter than the other. Surrounding him, recognizably cartooned, were all the Kardashians including Mama Jenner and Bruce in his decathlon togs. The caption read "Ratings are sliding downhill fast. One of you has to have a sex change operation."
Feel free to use it if you can cartoon! Although some other great, Martian mind has probably already thought of it.
Thanks go out to the fine libraries in Huron and De Smet South Dakota for placing Martian Schoolgirl on their shelves. It's a heartfelt joy to be represented back home.
I will be off line for a week ... off to my enclave of 600 like-minded women this week, returning just in time to hold the event at the Gipson center. In the meantime, please "Like" Martian Schoolgirl on Facebook and write nice reviews on Amazon. If they're other than nice, feel free to Contact Author, above. Critique is always welcome, no matter how tough. Vilification gets deleted. jrn
So, I'm preparing for my probable only event, on September 21st at the Carl Gipson Senior Center in Everett, hosted by my Creative Writing Group which meets there. I'm going to do readings at 10:15AM and 10:45AM, and books will be available courtesy of the Gipson gift shop. The Q & A portion after the reading is usually fun ... the questions are pretty much the same every place an author event is held. "Have you always wanted to write?" "Where do you get your ideas?" Are your characters based on real life?"
In case we never meet, the answers to the above are "yes," "I usually dream them," and "all except for the sexy chapter in Sweet Grass Season, which is a ;pure figment of the author's imagination!"
One questioner's response to the latter was a chuckle and another query: "Or wishful thinking?" It brought down the house, aptly stealing my thunder.
I really do dream them, the ideas. Usually they flutter on the tip of my brainstem the moment I awaken. A couple of days in bed with the flue recently, though, and rampaging through the gazillion yucky reality shows on TV has influenced my dreams. Wednesday morning I awakened with a cartoon, not a story idea. A cartoon, and I can barely sketch a stick figure.
In the middle stood a business-suited guy with a handful of straws, one shorter than the other. Surrounding him, recognizably cartooned, were all the Kardashians including Mama Jenner and Bruce in his decathlon togs. The caption read "Ratings are sliding downhill fast. One of you has to have a sex change operation."
Feel free to use it if you can cartoon! Although some other great, Martian mind has probably already thought of it.
Thanks go out to the fine libraries in Huron and De Smet South Dakota for placing Martian Schoolgirl on their shelves. It's a heartfelt joy to be represented back home.
I will be off line for a week ... off to my enclave of 600 like-minded women this week, returning just in time to hold the event at the Gipson center. In the meantime, please "Like" Martian Schoolgirl on Facebook and write nice reviews on Amazon. If they're other than nice, feel free to Contact Author, above. Critique is always welcome, no matter how tough. Vilification gets deleted. jrn