All Over The Place - Xandra G-spottings
Seriously. Don’t you just love my puns?
The book’s been let loose on the world, for better or worse, and I have taken a dive into the deep end over it (those of you who know me will undoubtedly be thinking, “well hell, she was already off the deep end anyway–this is different how?”). But I mean the deep end of what we all call “promo.”
I’m consistently amazed at the idea that other people want to talk about my book. Amazed and a little nervous (a lot nervous when those other people are my mother). I’m always afraid I’ll launch off into a complete n3rdgirl tangent about theme, genre, industry, or other stuff that people who don’t live and breathe writing couldn’t care less about. I also have lived for several years by the rule, “every time you pimp a fic, a kitten dies. Someone please think of the kittens!” One of the things I dread somewhat is being labeled as one of those authors who does nothing but promo her own stuff. In other words, a kitten-killer.
So far, my policy has grown out of a suggestion from my mother in law, a very dear, very pragmatic lady who reads voraciously and who, for years, fed my monkey for romance (my mother hooked me–my own mom!–on romances back when I was about ten, but the drive to devour them didn’t hit until I met my mother in law and could actually talk to another person about romance novels). MIL says, “Just be yourself. You’re good at it.”
So I will be being myself several places over the next few weeks. Yesterday, I had a load of fun blogging the Morning After segment of Liquid Silver’s Silver EXpressions blog (aka the SEx blog, and the blog with the most eye candy per capita). I’ll be doing that again April 22.
Then on April 27, I’ll be taking my first foray into chatting over at the Pink Posse chat room with the other Liquid Silver authors. My timeslot’s scheduled to be from 9-11 AM, EDT, but I’ll be popping in and out of the room all day, as time and rugrats permit.
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