So You Want the Truth? Can You Handle It?
Streamline...
Write more...
Get more out there...
Market more...
Market smarter...
Indie's saturated, go back to traditional...
No, join an author group...
Author groups don't market enough...
Author groups shouldn't market...
What should author groups do?
...Hang on... where is everybody???
It's a new year, reader-friends!
I bet all you guys are making plans, setting reading goals, maybe exercising more, possibly making resolutions...
Behind this little indie-writer's scenes, a lot of talk is going on about how publishing is changing (again!), author support groups, what we should be doing heading into the new year.
Personally, I've also been looking at what's coming next, what's working and what isn't. Many of you have asked about Mosaic , and Yes! That is up next on the agenda!
Once we get un -snowed-in and the little ladies back in school. Snow Day #2 starts tomorrow~
In other news, would you LOOK at this blog? What a mess. *smh*
That's another thing everybody's talking about--Author Websites and Branding. (They've actually been talking about that one a while... I'm still talking.)
When I started this blog in Feb. 2010, it looked almost exactly how it looks now. Okay, my photos have changed.
I started out looking like this:
2009-2011
Then I looked like this:
LTM avatar
Now you see me as I am up there. (I actually look like all of these pictures... Just depends on if my hair's straight.)
I was also very much a traditionalist. I was querying agents, working, and waiting... waiting... waiting... write while you wait... quietly go insane...
Until I started this blog.
And lo and behold, this amazing tribe of writer-friends formed!
We would send each other little "awards"--which were actually networking-style greeting cards. You'd get one and then you'd pass it along and tag each other and tag the person who sent it to you... and the tribe grew.
It was how we met new friends before Facebook took over.
All those little awards still line this blog as you can see... (that's what you did when you got one--put them in the sidebar.)
Then some of us started getting deals. I can't remember who hit it big first. Maybe it was Sarah Fine , maybe it was Elana Johnson , maybe it was Lydia Kang ...
Somebody can remind me.
The awards started moving to separate pages under tabs on the different blogs. The different blogs started looking more professional. The ones who'd gotten those big deals started getting too busy to blog... They had to write, y'all!
Totally understandable.
Then the revolution started. Jolene went indie... Susan went indie... Elle went indie... RaShelle blew up the indie scene with Blood & Snow ...
I started editing for hire and when I did, I really saw how many of our friends had left the traditional game--AND how successful they were on their own.
Some days I still feel like a Major Dummy for waiting so long to join them, but I'm catching up. The only thing I haven't done is changed this blog.
It's hard because when I come here, I'm reminded of all those days we bonded over how hard this business is. How much those rejection letters hurt. How close we were to giving up. How we didn't think we could keep going any more. How we weren't even sure if we even had what it took to be a published author any more. How we wondered why we even started doing this to begin with...
This page has so much history.
I have an "official" web page that's pretty professional-looking--- leightmoore.com .
Go there if you want to see me all spit and polished and looking like a Real Author.
But if you want the True Story, if you want to see behind the curtain, the journey, well, you've come to the right place.
Maybe one day I'll sit down and clean this blog up a bit. Make it look like a True Author Website...
*shrugs* I don't know.
Maybe instead, I'll pull down one of those awards and try circulating it again. See if anybody's still out there. If anybody else misses those old days.
Have a great week, reader-friends! Stay warm! I'll be heading back into the cave soon~
Write more...
Get more out there...
Market more...
Market smarter...
Indie's saturated, go back to traditional...
No, join an author group...
Author groups don't market enough...
Author groups shouldn't market...
What should author groups do?
...Hang on... where is everybody???
It's a new year, reader-friends!
I bet all you guys are making plans, setting reading goals, maybe exercising more, possibly making resolutions...
Behind this little indie-writer's scenes, a lot of talk is going on about how publishing is changing (again!), author support groups, what we should be doing heading into the new year.
Personally, I've also been looking at what's coming next, what's working and what isn't. Many of you have asked about Mosaic , and Yes! That is up next on the agenda!
Once we get un -snowed-in and the little ladies back in school. Snow Day #2 starts tomorrow~
In other news, would you LOOK at this blog? What a mess. *smh*
That's another thing everybody's talking about--Author Websites and Branding. (They've actually been talking about that one a while... I'm still talking.)
When I started this blog in Feb. 2010, it looked almost exactly how it looks now. Okay, my photos have changed.
I started out looking like this:
2009-2011Then I looked like this:
LTM avatarNow you see me as I am up there. (I actually look like all of these pictures... Just depends on if my hair's straight.)
I was also very much a traditionalist. I was querying agents, working, and waiting... waiting... waiting... write while you wait... quietly go insane...
Until I started this blog.
And lo and behold, this amazing tribe of writer-friends formed!
We would send each other little "awards"--which were actually networking-style greeting cards. You'd get one and then you'd pass it along and tag each other and tag the person who sent it to you... and the tribe grew.
It was how we met new friends before Facebook took over.
All those little awards still line this blog as you can see... (that's what you did when you got one--put them in the sidebar.)
Then some of us started getting deals. I can't remember who hit it big first. Maybe it was Sarah Fine , maybe it was Elana Johnson , maybe it was Lydia Kang ...
Somebody can remind me.
The awards started moving to separate pages under tabs on the different blogs. The different blogs started looking more professional. The ones who'd gotten those big deals started getting too busy to blog... They had to write, y'all!
Totally understandable.
Then the revolution started. Jolene went indie... Susan went indie... Elle went indie... RaShelle blew up the indie scene with Blood & Snow ...
I started editing for hire and when I did, I really saw how many of our friends had left the traditional game--AND how successful they were on their own.
Some days I still feel like a Major Dummy for waiting so long to join them, but I'm catching up. The only thing I haven't done is changed this blog.
It's hard because when I come here, I'm reminded of all those days we bonded over how hard this business is. How much those rejection letters hurt. How close we were to giving up. How we didn't think we could keep going any more. How we weren't even sure if we even had what it took to be a published author any more. How we wondered why we even started doing this to begin with...
This page has so much history.
I have an "official" web page that's pretty professional-looking--- leightmoore.com .
Go there if you want to see me all spit and polished and looking like a Real Author.
But if you want the True Story, if you want to see behind the curtain, the journey, well, you've come to the right place.
Maybe one day I'll sit down and clean this blog up a bit. Make it look like a True Author Website...
*shrugs* I don't know.
Maybe instead, I'll pull down one of those awards and try circulating it again. See if anybody's still out there. If anybody else misses those old days.
Have a great week, reader-friends! Stay warm! I'll be heading back into the cave soon~
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