NEWS at last;Ok, so I have a date for a book launch/signi...
NEWS at last;
Ok, so I have a date for a book launch/signing. Saturday the 30th of March.
"Where is it going to be, you dopey bastard?" I hear you ask...
Dymocks bookstore in Belconnen. (Easter Saturday morning.)
That gives me seven weeks and two days to work out publicity and sitch.
I've been offered a traditional book launch on a Thursday night leading up to the signing. I don't think it will serve my purposes greatly. A traditional book launch involves family, friends, industry reps and perhaps a special guest or two.
The facts;
* besides my patient wife and crazy kids, my family are all at least 300 km away (with one notable brother currently residing in Mongolia).
* owing to the amount of moving I have done, and the hermit-like nature enforced on me by my work/novel writing lifestyle in recent years there are very few people in the local area I could reliably call apon to attend a book launch and then the book signing afterwards. It would be one or the other for these busy peoples and I don't want to divide what might be an already smallish contingent.
* because it's a self-published novel, there is not the small army of industry types ready to leap into vacant spots and flesh out a group, sending out their feelers to interested parties and generally making any book launch look official.
Well, my aim in this whole venture is to have people read my book, not pat me on the back and smile broadly while drinking 'sham-paggin' and chewing on dry crackers 'n hard cheeze. Perhpaps when people have read my first novel and I'm finished writing the second there will be room for these pleatatudes. For now it is enough that I have a couple of hours of exposure at a major book shop on a busy day. AND I have plenty of time to try and whip up some interest in the surrounding area.
I'm grateful to the people at Dymocks for taking a punt on me and my book. If a few peeps from work, some press and some speculative fiction enthusiasts can rally together on this one Saturday morning in March at Belconnen that would help immensely.
Ok, so I have a date for a book launch/signing. Saturday the 30th of March.
"Where is it going to be, you dopey bastard?" I hear you ask...
Dymocks bookstore in Belconnen. (Easter Saturday morning.)
That gives me seven weeks and two days to work out publicity and sitch.
I've been offered a traditional book launch on a Thursday night leading up to the signing. I don't think it will serve my purposes greatly. A traditional book launch involves family, friends, industry reps and perhaps a special guest or two.
The facts;
* besides my patient wife and crazy kids, my family are all at least 300 km away (with one notable brother currently residing in Mongolia).
* owing to the amount of moving I have done, and the hermit-like nature enforced on me by my work/novel writing lifestyle in recent years there are very few people in the local area I could reliably call apon to attend a book launch and then the book signing afterwards. It would be one or the other for these busy peoples and I don't want to divide what might be an already smallish contingent.
* because it's a self-published novel, there is not the small army of industry types ready to leap into vacant spots and flesh out a group, sending out their feelers to interested parties and generally making any book launch look official.
Well, my aim in this whole venture is to have people read my book, not pat me on the back and smile broadly while drinking 'sham-paggin' and chewing on dry crackers 'n hard cheeze. Perhpaps when people have read my first novel and I'm finished writing the second there will be room for these pleatatudes. For now it is enough that I have a couple of hours of exposure at a major book shop on a busy day. AND I have plenty of time to try and whip up some interest in the surrounding area.
I'm grateful to the people at Dymocks for taking a punt on me and my book. If a few peeps from work, some press and some speculative fiction enthusiasts can rally together on this one Saturday morning in March at Belconnen that would help immensely.
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