Showing posts with label Wicca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wicca. Show all posts
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Probably Not in Time for Christmas, but...
Amazon.ca (NOT Amazon.com) now has copies of THE CIRCLE CAST available for order. I just got a copy here in New York, so they can ship to the States, too. Buy your teenager a copy for Imbolc!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Fantasy Young Adult Novel Resources?
Some time ago I perpetrated a novel about the childhood of Morgan le Fay called THE CIRCLE CAST: THE LOST YEARS OF MORGAN LE FAY. It's coming out next year from Tradewinds Press. O Hive Mind, how can I best promote this book efficiently?
The book is about Morgan's life between her flight into exile after her father's murder by Uther Penndragon, to her return to Britain as a powerful sorceress. How did a girl with nothing but talent and anger become the greatest sorceress of her age?
The book is nominally YA, so my publisher will, I imagine, market it to girls and libraries and school. I imagine Wiccans, medieval re-enactors and King Arthur fans would dig it, too.
Ye who know something about novel-publishing: what are the most efficient ways an author can promote his own novel? What's not worth the effort?
I've thought of doing a virtual author's tour, contacting blogs and websites for (a) young adult readers (b) Wiccans (c) medieval fans (d) King Arthur fans. What are the blogs and websites I shouldn't miss?
Also, my publisher is willing to fund an author tour. (Actually he'll get grant money for it.) If I hit four or five major cities, how can I get the maximum buzz out of being physically there? It's probably not worth traveling to Calgary to sell ten books, unless I can leverage that somehow into radio interviews or ... what?
I'm staring a blog about the book, magic, myth, and Morgan le Fay, of course. What sort of content might be the most interesting to readers?
Thank you, gentle readers!
The book is about Morgan's life between her flight into exile after her father's murder by Uther Penndragon, to her return to Britain as a powerful sorceress. How did a girl with nothing but talent and anger become the greatest sorceress of her age?
The book is nominally YA, so my publisher will, I imagine, market it to girls and libraries and school. I imagine Wiccans, medieval re-enactors and King Arthur fans would dig it, too.
Ye who know something about novel-publishing: what are the most efficient ways an author can promote his own novel? What's not worth the effort?
I've thought of doing a virtual author's tour, contacting blogs and websites for (a) young adult readers (b) Wiccans (c) medieval fans (d) King Arthur fans. What are the blogs and websites I shouldn't miss?
Also, my publisher is willing to fund an author tour. (Actually he'll get grant money for it.) If I hit four or five major cities, how can I get the maximum buzz out of being physically there? It's probably not worth traveling to Calgary to sell ten books, unless I can leverage that somehow into radio interviews or ... what?
I'm staring a blog about the book, magic, myth, and Morgan le Fay, of course. What sort of content might be the most interesting to readers?
Thank you, gentle readers!
Friday, February 02, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Five Things You May Not Know About Me...
... but I'm not going to tell you which one is false...
1. I'm married to my college sweetheart. With, oh, about 16 years in the middle where we weren't together.
2. I had to sue my first wife to get sole custody of my dog. (She wanted joint custody.)
3. I once took a psych exam next to Jodie Foster. Years later, at a premiere, she remembered my name.
4. I can remember almost nothing from before I was 13.
5. I was once initiated into a witch's coven. Purely for research, mind you.
1. I'm married to my college sweetheart. With, oh, about 16 years in the middle where we weren't together.
2. I had to sue my first wife to get sole custody of my dog. (She wanted joint custody.)
3. I once took a psych exam next to Jodie Foster. Years later, at a premiere, she remembered my name.
4. I can remember almost nothing from before I was 13.
5. I was once initiated into a witch's coven. Purely for research, mind you.
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