My voice really would crack, too, since I'm home having a sick day due to some sort of throat-dwelling virus. Perhaps more than one!
Anyway, I figured now would be a good time to look into a writers' forum where I could seek and/or stumble upon advice in the areas of self- and traditional publishing, e-books, and online promotion (like the Haanta series blog--very nicely done!).
The reason I'm doing this now--I mean other than the fact that I'm home from work and my kids are napping--is that my brother was at the New York Comic Con a week and a half ago, and there he saw a total stranger carrying MY "Legendary Sidekick" book! That was exciting news to me since I've done absolutely nothing to promote the book since 2009 (the year that I did almost nothing to promote it). It just happened that I was sketching out ideas for the series earlier that week, so the timing couldn't have been better if I had planned it.
But enough about my book. I didn't promote it for the past twenty-five months, so why start now?
About me: I'm a teacher married to a woman from Hong Kong, I have two bilingual daughters (the two-year-old basically blends her English baby-talk with her Chinese-baby talk, but you really can tell the difference), and I've studied a few martial arts styles such as Shotokan Karate and Iaido. All of this tends to inspire my writing, making my work 99% fiction, 1% autobiography. I suppose that's true for all of us (other than the inaccurate percentages).
PS- A confession: When I first registered, I was asked how many heads a dog normally has, one or two. I wrote, "One. Cerberus has three. That is the only exception I am aware of."
I failed to register due to the incorrect answer. THAT was when it occurred to me that this was a security question. A security question is not a toy.
Anyway, I figured now would be a good time to look into a writers' forum where I could seek and/or stumble upon advice in the areas of self- and traditional publishing, e-books, and online promotion (like the Haanta series blog--very nicely done!).
The reason I'm doing this now--I mean other than the fact that I'm home from work and my kids are napping--is that my brother was at the New York Comic Con a week and a half ago, and there he saw a total stranger carrying MY "Legendary Sidekick" book! That was exciting news to me since I've done absolutely nothing to promote the book since 2009 (the year that I did almost nothing to promote it). It just happened that I was sketching out ideas for the series earlier that week, so the timing couldn't have been better if I had planned it.
But enough about my book. I didn't promote it for the past twenty-five months, so why start now?
About me: I'm a teacher married to a woman from Hong Kong, I have two bilingual daughters (the two-year-old basically blends her English baby-talk with her Chinese-baby talk, but you really can tell the difference), and I've studied a few martial arts styles such as Shotokan Karate and Iaido. All of this tends to inspire my writing, making my work 99% fiction, 1% autobiography. I suppose that's true for all of us (other than the inaccurate percentages).
PS- A confession: When I first registered, I was asked how many heads a dog normally has, one or two. I wrote, "One. Cerberus has three. That is the only exception I am aware of."
I failed to register due to the incorrect answer. THAT was when it occurred to me that this was a security question. A security question is not a toy.
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