Now What?

What is an author to do the week after her novel is published? Once all the fireworks and brouhaha have died down (okay, those were for Guy Fawkes' Night and not me), along with the excitement of sending your baby out into the world, everything seems rather flat. Checking the number of visitors to the novel's page and the downloads is fun, but it doesn't take long.

I'd promised myself a break from Discord's Shadow for the rest of November, but I've found myself posting Iyessi songs, photos of dragons etc. on Facebook, updating banners and webpages, designing bookmarks and postcards, and all sorts of associated odds and ends. An indie author's work is never done.

It's difficult to settle to anything else after such a long project, which makes the arrival of the latest Third Flatiron anthology Things With Feathers: Stories of Hope an ideal distraction. It contains more than 20 pieces of feelgood fiction inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem. I found them intriguing and imaginative.

If you'd like to know more, I've posted a review. Enjoy!