Adversity
'Cause you've got ADVERSITY
Walk, against ADVERSITY
Talk, through ADVERSITY
Smile, despite ADVERSITY
(My detour around “"Personality," a 1959 R&B/pop hit with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price)
Apart from getting no major publishing deal with a cash advance, yet having to absorb the costs associated with self-publishing: professional editing services, formatting, and designing—an Indie author’s lack of direction for marketing one’s books is my greatest ADVERSITY. Yet, I seek to promote my recent launch, Contemporary Women’s Fiction novel, ‘An Enlightening Quiche,’ every single day on social media by sharing author interviews, posting recent reviews or awards, conducting giveaways, and procuring/publicizing book signing events (7 library signings and 1 at Barnes & Noble – January and February).
This week’s forays to overcome my adversity of obscurity:
01/09 - Author interview/giveaway conducted by Kester Nucum for LILbooKlovers:
http://tinyurl.com/zaet47l
01/12 - I submitted my novel for consideration of meriting an IPPY Award for the category of “Regional Fiction: North East.” One of the oldest, most established independent book awards in operation, the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) are well known and respected in the book industry.
http://tinyurl.com/hel59ra
01/14 - I’m hosting a book signing event at Greenville Public Library in Greenville, Rhode Island.
http://tinyurl.com/h3o9ppw
Having prefaced this blog about ADVERSITY, I’ll wrap it up by including an excerpt on the subject, gleaned from an author interview conducted by Ty Findlay, and posted on Facebook 01/11:
What was your greatest adversity?
The first adversity affecting the writing process occurred during the drafting of my second novel which I had begun while awaiting publication of my debut novel. I’ll define this adversity as an “occupational hazard” of a newbie Indie author discovering I had to market and promote my first novel. So, having written three chapters for the second, I set the manuscript aside, fully intending to get back to it—soon!
Punching a time card in 2008, I began binge writing my way out of obscurity by adding dimension to the art of storytelling. Having grown up in the Sixties, I drew upon those experiences to compose my first Memoir, “A Mini Tribute” (to Twiggy), and submitted it for publication at ‘The Sixties Official Site.’ When the webmaster graciously invited me to write more, and offered to set up my own page there, I eagerly accepted and turned out a Memoir every week for approximately two years, totalling100. I then composed over two dozen “Retro 60s Flashbacks” to add to my repertoire at “The Sixties with Eva Pasco” page. Far out! Celebrating ten years on the web, earning the accolade, “Baby Boomer’s Top Choice Sixties Website,” I’m proud to be an integral part.
In conjunction with the setting of Rhode Island in my first novel as well as the second I had put aside—‘An Enlightening Quiche’—it inspired me to write ezine articles on glorifying my state’s classic foods, historic landmarks, tourist attractions, and cultural idiosyncrasies. Each essay posted for posterity at Authors Den is prefaced with “Rhode Read.”
Between all of this writing frenzy and marketing the first novel, the manuscript lay dormant.
However, I’ll define the greatest adversities coming around the bend as “life’s hairpin turns” elaborated on in the interview.
http://tinyurl.com/hstwm8v
Despite setbacks, every prospective author must heed their own biological clock for determining when to write the story they are destined to tell.
Walk, against ADVERSITY
Talk, through ADVERSITY
Smile, despite ADVERSITY
(My detour around “"Personality," a 1959 R&B/pop hit with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price)
Apart from getting no major publishing deal with a cash advance, yet having to absorb the costs associated with self-publishing: professional editing services, formatting, and designing—an Indie author’s lack of direction for marketing one’s books is my greatest ADVERSITY. Yet, I seek to promote my recent launch, Contemporary Women’s Fiction novel, ‘An Enlightening Quiche,’ every single day on social media by sharing author interviews, posting recent reviews or awards, conducting giveaways, and procuring/publicizing book signing events (7 library signings and 1 at Barnes & Noble – January and February).
This week’s forays to overcome my adversity of obscurity:
01/09 - Author interview/giveaway conducted by Kester Nucum for LILbooKlovers:
http://tinyurl.com/zaet47l
01/12 - I submitted my novel for consideration of meriting an IPPY Award for the category of “Regional Fiction: North East.” One of the oldest, most established independent book awards in operation, the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) are well known and respected in the book industry.
http://tinyurl.com/hel59ra
01/14 - I’m hosting a book signing event at Greenville Public Library in Greenville, Rhode Island.
http://tinyurl.com/h3o9ppw
Having prefaced this blog about ADVERSITY, I’ll wrap it up by including an excerpt on the subject, gleaned from an author interview conducted by Ty Findlay, and posted on Facebook 01/11:
What was your greatest adversity?
The first adversity affecting the writing process occurred during the drafting of my second novel which I had begun while awaiting publication of my debut novel. I’ll define this adversity as an “occupational hazard” of a newbie Indie author discovering I had to market and promote my first novel. So, having written three chapters for the second, I set the manuscript aside, fully intending to get back to it—soon!
Punching a time card in 2008, I began binge writing my way out of obscurity by adding dimension to the art of storytelling. Having grown up in the Sixties, I drew upon those experiences to compose my first Memoir, “A Mini Tribute” (to Twiggy), and submitted it for publication at ‘The Sixties Official Site.’ When the webmaster graciously invited me to write more, and offered to set up my own page there, I eagerly accepted and turned out a Memoir every week for approximately two years, totalling100. I then composed over two dozen “Retro 60s Flashbacks” to add to my repertoire at “The Sixties with Eva Pasco” page. Far out! Celebrating ten years on the web, earning the accolade, “Baby Boomer’s Top Choice Sixties Website,” I’m proud to be an integral part.
In conjunction with the setting of Rhode Island in my first novel as well as the second I had put aside—‘An Enlightening Quiche’—it inspired me to write ezine articles on glorifying my state’s classic foods, historic landmarks, tourist attractions, and cultural idiosyncrasies. Each essay posted for posterity at Authors Den is prefaced with “Rhode Read.”
Between all of this writing frenzy and marketing the first novel, the manuscript lay dormant.
However, I’ll define the greatest adversities coming around the bend as “life’s hairpin turns” elaborated on in the interview.
http://tinyurl.com/hstwm8v
Despite setbacks, every prospective author must heed their own biological clock for determining when to write the story they are destined to tell.
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