Jack Rollins's Blog - Posts Tagged "vampire"
Out of the Shadows
This was an entry from my Booklikes blog and the nominations are out of date so I've left them off, I thought it would be a good opportunity to start my Goodreads blog.
I chose this one for 2 reasons:
1. it's about the networking that was started for me right here on Goodreads.
2. Embedded into the nominations event I built the blog around, is a little sample of one of my future releases (for those who have read the 3 Dr Blessing titles currently available, the story takes place between Blessing's Rapture, and A Christmas Blessing).
Here goes...
Being an independent author is a lonely business. The difficulty I have always found has been in wanting to promote my work, but at the same time wanting to protect it. I avoided adding authors on Facebook and Twitter like the plague.
One day, about 6 weeks ago, that all changed. A simple inquiry post on Goodreads led to a slew of responses from indie authors and bloggers who all wanted to help me. Then I realised, for the most part, we are not each other's competition. Indie authors are an industry all of our own. If one of us can convince a reader to take a chance on something not published by the mainstream publishing system, then all indie authors can benefit.
My facebook page, www.facebook.com/doctorblessing grew to almost double its following overnight, and in the coming weeks a sample of The Cabinet of Dr Blessing is going to feature alongside a Q&A on a blog.
Today I received an invitation to the writer's version of the necknominations fad, and I thought I would share it here:
I was tagged by Stuart Keane to take part in this:
Go to page. 7 or 77 of your current WIP.
Go to line 7.
Post on your wall the next 7 sentences or 7 lines- as they are!
Tag 7 people to do the same.
I have chosen one of several works in progress, with the working title De Omori: Dark Chapter (note I am awaiting permission from David Basnett the creator of De Omori, to run with this story). 7 sentences from page 7 as follows:
One of the labourers called, “You couldn’t take us all. A bunch of toffs and a leper!”
Some of the labourers protested against their fellow, others cheered his courage and began producing clubs, knives and razors.
The gangmaster screamed for the men to restrain themselves. “You don’t know what you’re doing!”
“No? I know what we’re all being paid is worth less than one of those silver balls there! And I reckon if these toffs aren’t going to give us our fair share, we should take whatever we think is fair!”
Now I need to nominate 7 people: Rog Archer, David Basnett, Terry M. West,Bruce J. Walker Jr., Angela Crawford, Michael Brookes, MD Rita
And if that little snippet got any interest from you, come and join me on facebook at that link above, and/or on Twitter where I tend to comment on films and TV shows I like etc, too: @jackrollins9280
It makes being an indie author a much less lonely thing to be...
I chose this one for 2 reasons:
1. it's about the networking that was started for me right here on Goodreads.
2. Embedded into the nominations event I built the blog around, is a little sample of one of my future releases (for those who have read the 3 Dr Blessing titles currently available, the story takes place between Blessing's Rapture, and A Christmas Blessing).
Here goes...
Being an independent author is a lonely business. The difficulty I have always found has been in wanting to promote my work, but at the same time wanting to protect it. I avoided adding authors on Facebook and Twitter like the plague.
One day, about 6 weeks ago, that all changed. A simple inquiry post on Goodreads led to a slew of responses from indie authors and bloggers who all wanted to help me. Then I realised, for the most part, we are not each other's competition. Indie authors are an industry all of our own. If one of us can convince a reader to take a chance on something not published by the mainstream publishing system, then all indie authors can benefit.
My facebook page, www.facebook.com/doctorblessing grew to almost double its following overnight, and in the coming weeks a sample of The Cabinet of Dr Blessing is going to feature alongside a Q&A on a blog.
Today I received an invitation to the writer's version of the necknominations fad, and I thought I would share it here:
I was tagged by Stuart Keane to take part in this:
Go to page. 7 or 77 of your current WIP.
Go to line 7.
Post on your wall the next 7 sentences or 7 lines- as they are!
Tag 7 people to do the same.
I have chosen one of several works in progress, with the working title De Omori: Dark Chapter (note I am awaiting permission from David Basnett the creator of De Omori, to run with this story). 7 sentences from page 7 as follows:
One of the labourers called, “You couldn’t take us all. A bunch of toffs and a leper!”
Some of the labourers protested against their fellow, others cheered his courage and began producing clubs, knives and razors.
The gangmaster screamed for the men to restrain themselves. “You don’t know what you’re doing!”
“No? I know what we’re all being paid is worth less than one of those silver balls there! And I reckon if these toffs aren’t going to give us our fair share, we should take whatever we think is fair!”
Now I need to nominate 7 people: Rog Archer, David Basnett, Terry M. West,Bruce J. Walker Jr., Angela Crawford, Michael Brookes, MD Rita
And if that little snippet got any interest from you, come and join me on facebook at that link above, and/or on Twitter where I tend to comment on films and TV shows I like etc, too: @jackrollins9280
It makes being an indie author a much less lonely thing to be...
Time to catch up
The crowdfunding project has taken up a lot of time lately, mostly because my OCD makes me keep checking the i-phone to see if any new backers have appeared!
But I'm not the only one who is busy out there:
Stuart Keane posted on Facebook the other day a monumental list of projects he has coming off in the near future. I'm proud to be mentioned as a collaborator among them. I was shocked at how prolific he is, given the short space of time he has been on the go (if I remember correctly he's only been writing since February I think it was). Puts me to shame - Dr Blessing's Curse was released in 2011!
Kyle M. Scott has this week released his first full novel Devil's Day which I picked up straight away and can't wait to get going on!
David Basnett sent me an early draft of his next project. Connected to his YA De Omori series, this is a straight adult horror story and I'm about halfway through it. It's going to be a belter when released. I don't generally go for YA fiction, but really enjoyed his 3 De Omori/Eve Evans stories, especially the 3rd one as the characters grew up and became more badass, but this one definitely pulls no punches.
So once I get David's story read, but before I get on to Kyle's (my pretend-OCD means I have to read 'em as they came in) I get to take a little step back in time and across the Atlantic for A Return to Normalcy by C.A. McGroarty, which I am looking forward to immensely - it looks right up my Victorian psychopath street.
And sometime in between I have to deal with family, finances and finishing frightening fiction.
Where does one find the time?
But I'm not the only one who is busy out there:
Stuart Keane posted on Facebook the other day a monumental list of projects he has coming off in the near future. I'm proud to be mentioned as a collaborator among them. I was shocked at how prolific he is, given the short space of time he has been on the go (if I remember correctly he's only been writing since February I think it was). Puts me to shame - Dr Blessing's Curse was released in 2011!
Kyle M. Scott has this week released his first full novel Devil's Day which I picked up straight away and can't wait to get going on!
David Basnett sent me an early draft of his next project. Connected to his YA De Omori series, this is a straight adult horror story and I'm about halfway through it. It's going to be a belter when released. I don't generally go for YA fiction, but really enjoyed his 3 De Omori/Eve Evans stories, especially the 3rd one as the characters grew up and became more badass, but this one definitely pulls no punches.
So once I get David's story read, but before I get on to Kyle's (my pretend-OCD means I have to read 'em as they came in) I get to take a little step back in time and across the Atlantic for A Return to Normalcy by C.A. McGroarty, which I am looking forward to immensely - it looks right up my Victorian psychopath street.
And sometime in between I have to deal with family, finances and finishing frightening fiction.
Where does one find the time?
