I should have posted this two weeks ago, but I got swept up in the excitement and new stresses of finishing The Guildmaster. At last! It is done, available in paperback and kindle, and I am so glad. Merric, I love you, but if I had to hear you complain about your dad one more time, I was going to write you up some sort of punishment. Or not. You've suffered enough.
Anyway, it's weird because before a book is published, all your energy goes into making sure it's the best it can be, etc. And the moment it's published, all your concentration shifts to "Who can I get to read this behemoth and leave a review??" Luckily, I had some contacts from The Sun Guardian, a few reviewers who'd read and posted about it on their websites. So I wrote them and received some interest. Just got my first review for The King's Whisper last week from Gay Book Reviews and they liked it! I rejoiced! For five minutes. Then I started fretting over whether they would like The Guildmaster just as much.
It's daunting, waiting to see how something you've worked so hard on will be judged, but I figure, as long as I wrote the story I wanted to tell, the way I wanted to tell it, the best I could, then there's nothing to worry about really. Someone, somewhere will like it. (And hopefully some of those someones will be people with blogs and loud mouths so we can get the word of Viridor spread throughout the kingdom.)
For now, I'm off to work on more advertising, and to work on the fourth book. There is no rest. Not when the trees of Viridor are stirring...*mysterious music*
-T.S.
Anyway, it's weird because before a book is published, all your energy goes into making sure it's the best it can be, etc. And the moment it's published, all your concentration shifts to "Who can I get to read this behemoth and leave a review??" Luckily, I had some contacts from The Sun Guardian, a few reviewers who'd read and posted about it on their websites. So I wrote them and received some interest. Just got my first review for The King's Whisper last week from Gay Book Reviews and they liked it! I rejoiced! For five minutes. Then I started fretting over whether they would like The Guildmaster just as much.
It's daunting, waiting to see how something you've worked so hard on will be judged, but I figure, as long as I wrote the story I wanted to tell, the way I wanted to tell it, the best I could, then there's nothing to worry about really. Someone, somewhere will like it. (And hopefully some of those someones will be people with blogs and loud mouths so we can get the word of Viridor spread throughout the kingdom.)
For now, I'm off to work on more advertising, and to work on the fourth book. There is no rest. Not when the trees of Viridor are stirring...*mysterious music*
-T.S.