COUNTDOWN TO LAUNCH – 6 WEEKS TO GO
Only six weeks to go in my countdown to launch. Blimey! This week I was thinking about my actual launch day and I realised I hadn’t scheduled anything for May 22nd itself. This scared me. Imagine if, after a year of anticipation, the release day itself is a massive anti-climax. No! Can’t happen! I want to share the moment with all the lovely people who’ve helped along the way, and I want to CELEBRATE (yes, in shouty capital letters). After all, as a famous philosopher once philosophized, ‘if an author says ‘Yay! Me!’ in a wood, and there’s no one to hear, do they still make a sound?’
One thought sprang to mind – PARTY!
Hot on the trails of that thought came several other thoughts:
A party would involve lots of cleaning and I don’t like cleaning.
Life will already be manic that week – my husband is travelling, we’re moving house and the kids are doing their school tests.
My friends and book-buddies are spread all over the world and it would be impossible to get them in one place.
So, a rephrased thought sprang to mind – VIRTUAL PARTY!
I haven’t firmed up the details, but I’m going to have a BIG FAT FACEBOOK PARTY on May 22nd with games and quizzes and videos and giveaways and lots of lovely chat. It’ll start at midday UK time (3pm in the UAE) and go on all day (or until people start photocopying their bums and falling into pot plants and the police come round to ask us to turn down the music.) You can either pop in for a few minutes (bringing virtual cake and cyber champagne) or go crazy and stay all day.
I’ll send the invitations out through Facebook. So, if you’re not already on there, click HERE so we can be friends (ahhh) and I can include you on the list.
Sometime next week I’ll set up an event page with a banner and some links. If you know anyone who might be interested in popping in, please invite them. The more the merrier!
It’s a fine line between keeping people updated with what’s going on and boring everyone stupid, so I’ve also spent this week sorting out a mailchimp account through which I’ll be sending out a monthly newsletter with kids’ book recommendation, games and details of what’s going on, so if you’d like to be included, please opt in HERE:
All that’s left to say are this week’s thank yous. To Alice, Jon, Mark and Jodie for helping record the soundtrack to the book trailer – more on that soon. To Reem & Emma for the wise words about Mail Chimps and PR. To the fab people at Facebook for their thoughts. To Omar and Heidi for tips on invisibility for Book 2 and to my Twitter friends for making me laugh this week. You know who you are. Hashtag insectporn
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