Harry Connolly's Blog, page 190
May 12, 2010
Under the heading "Good News"
I am informed by Reliable Sources that the Delivery and Acceptance check from Random House is on its way. Yay! Man Bites World is now officially turned in. All I have left is title it, review the copy edits and galleys, plus whatever promotional stuff I have to do.
I feel unemployed.
May 11, 2010
What do you think of this?
More and more I see people posting Bookscan numbers for authors' books. (example) Not their own sales numbers–this is for authors they don't know at all.
Cool? Not cool? I'm a little uncomfortable posting those numbers, like saying "Bill? He earns $65,000 a year at his sales job. Down a bit from previous years, but…"
It's one thing if the author does it himself, but complete strangers? As much as I'd like to know my own Bookscan numbers, I wouldn't like them posted online for...
Nicholas Christakis: The Hidden Influence of Social Networks
This is fascinating:
It's 18 minutes long, but like a lot of TED Talks, it's interesting as all hell. The speaker turned his experience working in hospice care to study how common human conditions spread through social networks. Not only does he talk about emotions like happiness and anger (and how those feelings seem to have a life beyond the individual expression of them) but obesity as well.
One thing I wish he'd addressed (and I'm almost tempted to write him a letter to ask him about...
Long walks = writing
After several rather cluttered days, I'm taking this morning for The Buried King. First, a long walk to work out some plotty knotty goodness. Then, coffee and my laptop. We'll see if I'm finally ready to tackle chapter one.
May 10, 2010
Via MightyGodKing
This is crazy fun.
Facebook users, that's embedded video. Click through to see it. Sorry you can't watch it at work, Gary.
Randomness for 5/10
1) Holy cow, but this is amazing. And here's some poster art.
3) Creating the sociopaths of the future.
4) A teeny murder weapon. Weirdly, I was going to show this to my son, but he'd already seen it. My little boy is growing up.
Randomness for
1) Holy cow, but this is amazing. And here's some poster art.
3) Creating the sociopaths of the future.
4) A teeny murder weapon. Weirdly, I was going to show this to my son, but he'd already seen it. My little boy is growing up.
5) A personal remembrance of Frank Frazetta, in two tweets.
6)
And now it's on Publishers Weekly
The PW blog Genreville just posted that reader-created book trailer. Awesome.
They're also asking for favorite book trailers. If you have one, post a link; if you want to see some, check out the comments. I certainly will later on, for trailer research.
May 9, 2010
Joke trailer better than real one
Well, I assume it will be better.
I received an email an hour ago letting me know that someone had created an animated trailer for my two books. The emailer didn't realize that the first comment on that thread was from me (although judging by the f/u email, they did immediately after they hit SEND). Still, it's pretty damn funny.
Also, I've been seeing links to it here and there, some by people I know and some by strangers–there's something weirdly hypnotic about disco dancers with book...
