The Writing Process Blog Hop
An author friend of mine, Sarah Butland, tagged me for this
blog hop, and sent me some fascinating questions to answer. So, this time I'm the one in the spotlight.
Here's our mini interview, I hope you enjoy:
Sarah:
Is there a contest that you entered or won which changed
your life forever?
Me:
I can’t say there was, I’m afraid; I've never had much luck
with contests. Although there was an elementary school competition where my
haiku got selected for a publication. I remember being quite proud of that, and
it gave my mother bragging rights for a bit.
Sarah:
How much of your day is spent writing new and/or
marketing old.
Me:
I think that depends on the day. I do try to achieve a balance
between the two, but sometimes I get caught up in one or the other. I get on a
writing roll, and the time ticks by and the next thing I know those marketing
tweets or that blog post will have to wait. Or promos and events push back the
writing. And then some days I’m just a buzz with multi-tasking: writing,
marketing, whatever. It does help to schedule some marketing in advance though,
like blog posts and tweets.
Sarah:
What's the best story you've ever read and how did its
marketing catch your attention?
Me:
The best story I ever read was published way, way back
before I even dreamed of marketing, namely All
Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury. As a child, I found it I the back of a
magazine I bought through the Scholastic program at school. That story was the
catalyst that started my lifelong love of short fiction.
More recently though, I discovered the brilliant book series,
On Dark Shores by J.A. Clement, and I
found her marketing strategy caught my attention. She hearkened back to the
olden days of serial novels by publishing a sequence of ongoing novellas, each
one being a part of the whole story, and continuing the chapters from the
previous book. I’m not certain any
author could have pulled it off, but her writing is so exceptional, she has her
readers well hooked.
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And now here’s a bit about the two authors that I've tagged
for the hop. I hope you’ll check out their blogs; it will be worth the time:
Steve Vernon
Steve Vernon lives and works in Nova Scotia Canada, and is
the author of such books as Haunted
Harbours: Ghost Stories From Old Nova Scotia, The Lunenburg Werewolf And
Other Stories of the Supernatural, Maritime Monsters, Sinking Deeper,
Sudden
Death Overtime, and Tatterdemon.
He’s traveled right across Canada and has worked as a
factory hand, house painter, field worker, tree planter, roustabout,
woodworker, artist's model, fiddlehead picker, blueberry raker, woodchopper,
warehouse strawboss, snow shoveller, garden digger, environmental criminal and
anything else that paid a buck. He’s married with children and has a cat named
Kismet.
Axel Howerton
Axel Howerton is an
award-winning poet and the author of the quirky neo-noir pulp detective novel Hot
Sinatra, the mini-anthology Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy, and
a bevy of short stories and hidden gems. Axel is a former editor for Dark Moon
Digest and, as the long-time Senior Editor of Eye
Crave DVD/Eye Crave Network,
he was one of the champions of the burgeoning b-movie scene of the early-mid
200′s and one of Canada’s webtertainment pioneers.
Axel is also the
co-creator and organizer of the annual Coffin
Hop online author extravaganza,
and the owner-operator of Coffin Hop Press. His
fiction has recently appeared in Big Pulp, Fires on the Plain, Steampunk
Originals Vol. 1, the Big Lebowski companion piece Lebowski 101, the
LGBQT anthology Clones, Fairies and Monsters in the Closet, A Career
Guide To Your Job In Hell and the best-selling holiday anthology Let It
Snow: Season’s Readings For A Super-Cool Yule.
He is a member of
the Crime Writers of Canada
and lives in the wilds of Western Canada with his two brilliant young sons and
a wife who is way out of his league.
Website: http://axelhowerton.com/
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