Everybody Put an e-Book Reader on Your Christmas Wish-List Please
Hi Y’all. I’m back from Byron Bay and sooooo glad to be home. Not that I don’t like Byron. I love it and I had a great time there. But I love my home even more. I can’t think why I ever leave it.
When I left you, I said I would be celebrating some good news while I was away but left you in suspenders until I got back. Well, before I tell you what it was, let me remind you what I wrote when I began this blog.
This is my writing blog and it documents my attempts to become a published author (and my occasional successes.) There are many writers like me. We have worked hard to learn our craft and to understand the arcane and archaic world of publishing. We are writing short stories and novels but having very little success at publishing any of them – especially for money. There is, in fact, little hope that we will ever succeed – the odds against it are fearsome. Yet we continue to work at it.
I invited you all along to look over my shoulder as I undertook this journey. In the past fifteen months you’ve seen me whooping with delight as I got my first short stories published, sighing with despair as the rejections kept on pouring in, struggling with the craft, and generally carrying on like the silly, emotional creature I am as I staggered upward on this rock-strewn, pot-holed road.
Well, the good news is that I’ve crested one of the foothills of success. I have signed a contract for the publication of my most recent novel, ‘TimeSplash’. The contract is with a New York-based, small-press publisher, Lyrical Press Inc., that specialises in electronic publication. Yes, my novel is going to appear first as an e-book! How Twenty-First Century is that?
Excited? Oh boy, yes. But also realistic. Even though I’ve signed, I’m not published yet. There is still an editing process and a production process to go through before that happens. Then there will be the nail-biting few months when we see whether ‘TimeSplash’ will sell. I hope you’ll stick around for the rest of the journey. As I said, I’ve crested a foothill. From here, I have a better view of the mountain ranges ahead of me.
But the air is good up here. Very, very good.
What excellent, excellent news! I’m really going to enjoy following your progress through the nitty-gritty stages leading to publication. Onwards and upwards!
Thanks. I’m hoping that all I’ll have to report is smooth progress and plain sailing!
Hi Graham, just checking in to see what happened. Yay, congratulations! All the best with it and I’ll be watching to see how it turns out for you.
Thanks, Kylie. As for how it turns out, I’m hoping for ‘inspirational’ rather than ‘salutory’ but only time will tell.
Hoorah, hoorah and thrice hoorah!
This has been the first time ever that I have been tempted to look at an e-book reader…
This is thrilling – and I feel that you will be the pioneer for the rest of us treading similar paths, how exciting! Like PB, I’m looking forward to hearing all about it – don’t spare the details, I’m curious to know what it’s like to breathe that air.
Oh, you little beauty!!! I am gobsmacked, fabulous news.
Going to stop now because I’m repeating myself with joy. Back soon after I do a victory dance for you.
Fan-bloody-tastic!!!
terry
Ah Emma, you’ll be tasting that air yourself soon enough. I think that’s you I see just a few paces behind, being cheered on by your throng of twitter followers. By the way, could you ask them to keep the noise down, please?
Fan-bloody-tastic just about sums it up alright, Terry. I wish I had that dance of yours on video.
GO YOU! That’s fantastic news! And an e-book – way to be cutting edge
wonderful news graham! i’m so excited and happy for you, that’s a wonderful start. and very appropriate format for a sci fi read, i reckon. well done! now, all i have to do is get an e-reader …
OMG I am so far behind I haven’t said YAY!!!!!! yet.
So: YAY!!!!!!!
That’s better
Thanks J-A. Thanks Jo. All Yays gratefully received.
Jo, I wanted to thank you for your lovely blog post too but you seem to have turned commenting off! So, thank you anyway.
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Go Graham! Your blog looks fantastic, the e-book sounds awesome, and I dig your writing. Write on, write on.
OMG I am SO FAR BEHIND I’m time travelling… woo-freakin’-hoo, man, that is so fantastic!!!!! I’m joining Terry in his happy dance, watch my feet fly…
As Jo A said in her blog – the Orbiteers will conquer the world. Given this, I think all this happy-dancing might just be a little bit undignified for future world-conquerors.