Surprise! I Have No Idea Your Book is Coming Out

I was listening to a podcast about the Hugos yesterday, and then this morning I read a post from another authorabout how, you know, as an author – especially fifteen+ years ago – you weren’t expected to do a lot of self-promotion. In fact, one of the reasons I got into this, too, was because it was a profession that would let me sit in a little room and write by myself. As an introvert, this was about the most perfect profession I could imagine.I didn’t have to hang out with people. I could j...