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So I took a deep breath and made my mark at the bottom of an expensive piece of paper.
After all the rewrites, tweaks, ISBN numbers, cover designs, the time is almost here and in less than a month I will be sitting atop a pile of shiny new books.
Of course that is when I rely on the dear readers to start buying enough copies for me to be able to pay the printer in September.
Such is the high flying life of a self publisher.
Preview Time – check out my flaps!
Posted: 17th June 2010 by the author in Book Related, Sparrow's FlightHere it is, in a glorious 3 colour frenzy.
In a week of big announcements comes your opportunity to see the full cover (less barcode) of Sparrow’s Flight.
A new day, a new look, a new campaign.
Posted: 17th June 2010 by the author in Site General, Sparrow's FlightAfter a sad amount of recent posting, and lots of energy spent elsewhere I have turned to the site with a guilty look.
With Sparrow’s Flight due to hit the streets in August I think it’s high time for a fresh new look and this is one of the latest themes to drop on WordPress, so here it is.
Still fitting in time to play around with the widgets and sidebars, but the general functionality is there and as a celebration of upcoming events I may well open up comments in case any of my visitors stay long enough to interact.
Keep em peeled for a sneak peek at the new cover art once it’s all squared away.
Okay, so the Pindar competition board didn’t really want to see anything other than “run of the mil” fiction. That’s their perogative I suppose, but after all the effort over a shortened writing period I think I am justified in being a little underwhelmed.
Confidence or a lack thereof is a terrible thing.
It was less than two weeks since I submitted Sparrow’s Flight for consideration, at that time I was pretty happy with myself. I had allowed myself an extra brandy or two and a celebratory evening of BFBC2.
Now I just don’t know, was it good enough? Was it even remotely interesting to anybody else? Would Simon Cowell call it a self indulgent mess?
Time will tell, but now I know there are over 500 entries in the competition and a possible shortlist of 5, I don’t like the odds much. Being somebody that wants to push a quirky and challenging product it may well be an early return to self publishing.
The alternative would be to use the experience and success of ‘taking chemo on the chin’ to get a foot in the door with a real publisher or even an Agent! That would be a shock…
However, being a try hard wordsmith and not a salesman, getting a modicum of my passsion for the new book over is an almost impossible task.
Confidence, great when you have it, crap when you don’t.