The process of taking chances...
Apr. 30th, 2012 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldfis always difficult, at least if you're really risking something. Sending your work out into the world to face rejection is a tough road. Sending your work out for reviews can be even harder. Then there's the joy of self-promotion, in which you have to ask people for things. Sometimes, they ask you, which is nice. But if you're new or small press or just new to a given market, you'll get to do a lot of asking. I have my ups and downs with it, both the asking and the results. But today, the asking paid off. I get to do a Big Idea post for Silver Moon on Whatever, author John Scalzi's blog! This is huge, since he gets a phenomenal amount of traffic. I am very grateful to him for sharing some of his bandwidth and taking some of the rest of us along for the ride. And I'm even more grateful that all I had to do to get this to happen was to send him the information he requested, in the time frame he requested, and ask.
(Of course, a few hours later when I was still OMGing about this opportunity, my publisher pinged me re: a certain other very large book blog and their interest in Moon in the wake of the PW review and my immediate reaction was, "No! They'll pull the wings off! It hasn't flown yet!"). Which just goes to show you that writers are pretty tightly wound and not necessarily well-grounded. Yes, the book got sent.
(Of course, a few hours later when I was still OMGing about this opportunity, my publisher pinged me re: a certain other very large book blog and their interest in Moon in the wake of the PW review and my immediate reaction was, "No! They'll pull the wings off! It hasn't flown yet!"). Which just goes to show you that writers are pretty tightly wound and not necessarily well-grounded. Yes, the book got sent.