Ruby Soames's Blog, page 3
July 11, 2011
Letter from reader
Now that my novel has been released over a month, the readers are expanding from family, friends, friends of friends...to strangers!
Received an email today from a reader who has a lot of catch up on this Monday having spent the entire weekend reading Seven Days to Tell You.
She loved it, describing it as a 'great ride'! and is going to put forward the novel for her book club in Ontario, Canada. Great news!
It's really wonderful to get feedback from readers (through my website www.rubysoames.com). That's made my day!
Received an email today from a reader who has a lot of catch up on this Monday having spent the entire weekend reading Seven Days to Tell You.
She loved it, describing it as a 'great ride'! and is going to put forward the novel for her book club in Ontario, Canada. Great news!
It's really wonderful to get feedback from readers (through my website www.rubysoames.com). That's made my day!
July 10, 2011
A Blog to Tell You
Welcome! Wait! Don't go! Stay. Read. Or just look at the pictures. Let me tell you...
...about the ride I'm taking on a near-dead donkey from someone who's had a novel published to someone who might sell a few copies. Yes. It's like that. Slow. Frustrating, and very often going no where. In fact, most often going no where.
Seven Days to Tell You is not really my debut novel. It's my fourth, but first one to get published. Getting published. I once thought that was it! I once thought that was the hard part!
...Last October on an island off France my family and I were spending half-term huddled in our freezing cold hotel room asking ourselves what the *^$$~#? were we doing there in the hail, snow, blizzards and threatening Tsunami at that time of year out of season? And then I got the phone call. As a result of readers in bookgroups all over the UK being so passionate about my book, Hookline Books were going to publish it. I'd entered the competition in January and waited nine months to hear the result - nine months and over thirty years! It was the call I'd waited for since I was a child.
I ran through rain, snow, hail and my children followed, all of us yelling at the elements in delight.
My book came out in June. And this is the hard part! Most of my friends have bought it. Great friends! I am so grateful for their support, really touched by their buying, reviewing and telling their friends. But what now?
My editor says a good product sells itself.
But I'm thinking, you kidding?
Anyone got any ideas?
Seven Days to Tell You
...about the ride I'm taking on a near-dead donkey from someone who's had a novel published to someone who might sell a few copies. Yes. It's like that. Slow. Frustrating, and very often going no where. In fact, most often going no where.
Seven Days to Tell You is not really my debut novel. It's my fourth, but first one to get published. Getting published. I once thought that was it! I once thought that was the hard part!
...Last October on an island off France my family and I were spending half-term huddled in our freezing cold hotel room asking ourselves what the *^$$~#? were we doing there in the hail, snow, blizzards and threatening Tsunami at that time of year out of season? And then I got the phone call. As a result of readers in bookgroups all over the UK being so passionate about my book, Hookline Books were going to publish it. I'd entered the competition in January and waited nine months to hear the result - nine months and over thirty years! It was the call I'd waited for since I was a child.
I ran through rain, snow, hail and my children followed, all of us yelling at the elements in delight.
My book came out in June. And this is the hard part! Most of my friends have bought it. Great friends! I am so grateful for their support, really touched by their buying, reviewing and telling their friends. But what now?
My editor says a good product sells itself.
But I'm thinking, you kidding?
Anyone got any ideas?
Seven Days to Tell You
