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If you're a writer or hang out with a writer, you'll probably recognize a lot of these. Writing isn't only about writing. It's also about networking, promoting, and marketing. 1.... If you're a writer, you probably check your Fictionwise and Amazon (and probably Barnes & Nobles and other booksellers) rankings at least once a day. Probably more like several times a day. My most recent release "Wild Fantasies" was number 5 for my publisher (Total-e-Bound) earlier tonight. 2.... If you're a writer, you are probably on several readers and writers loops. 3.... If you're a writer, you probably have at least one of your books in your signature line. 4.... If you're a writer, you either went to the RT conference last week - or wish you did. You're most likely going to at least one writer's conference this year. 5.... If you're a writer, you most likely have your own blog and post excerpts and reviews of your books to your blog. 6.... If you're a writer, you Google yourself a lot.   7.... If you're a writer, you probably have several people talking to you in your mind. 8.... If you're a writer, you probably keep a notebook by your bed and in your car so you can write down ideas the minute they strike you. 9.... If you're a writer, you probably spend between 30-60% of your "writing" time promoting rather than writing. 10... If you're a writer, your family is well acquainted with hot dogs and cold sandwiches when you're deep in edits. 11... If you're a writer, you have dreams of quitting the day job and writing full time (if you're not already doing it full time). 12... If you're a writer, you probably have critique partners in several different countries, or at least different states, and you talk to them several times a day, maybe more than you speak to your spouse. 13... If you're a writer, you go into meltdown if your computer melts down or you lose Internet access. |
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I really don't think I'm the only author who's obsessed with checking my book rankings. Or my website traffic count. Fess up, y'all. How many of you do it?
Do you Google yourself? Ooh, I just love to Google myself - except for the time I found a pirating sight selling my books.
Can I kill my hubby? I was watching the American Idol news and he changed the channel in the middle of it! Can you believe the nerve? I think this is definite grounds for divorce. He never asks me if it's okay with me before changing the channel or if the station he lands on is okay with me. I'm so SICK of it!!! This is definitely NOT a happily ever after. No wonder I live in a fantasy world and write romance so I can make up happily ever afters. No wonder we don't fantasize about 27 years into marriage. They'd all be like the beginning of the Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas movie "Jewel of the Nile". Oy!
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