So the other week I was asked to write a dedication for the Geography of Water. And get blurbs. The dedication was pretty easy–but it is a secret, you will know in November! The blurbs were to the authors who said they would read the book, and all but one agreed. I was disappointed when the person said that they couldn’t, but I had to honor it. It’s no big loss anyway, since the two writers who said they would are Alaska writers which makes more sense. It’s definitely hard to get blurbs until you actually know well-known writers. We have all seen blurbs by people who are obviously just friends, and while that’s nice and all, it won’t sell books.
Honestly, I’m not sure about my fire memoir. I won’t go into it here, but I may have to look into other avenues. That’s all I can really say at this point. Suffice to say, every step of this is hard. First you think that finishing a manuscript is the hard part, and it will be easy from now on. Then you think getting an agent is hard, and once you get one it will be easy from now on. Well, I’m here to tell you it’s not, especially if you are an unknown author. You still have to sell yourself just as hard. I’m going to give the process six months or so and reevaluate.
That’s all I’ve got. Work is taking up so much of my time that I haven’t written very much. The Alaska memoir limps along a few pages at a time. I need a writing retreat to kick it into gear. Someday…