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Late to the party, or, That "Are You A Professional Writer?" nonsense
So, the idea that THIS is the ONLY WAY to be a professional writer has been pretty thoroughly debunked. Scalzi said it best: "Did you write something? Did you get paid for it? Congratulations, you're a professional writer!"
Nevertheless, I wanted to take a whack at these questions anyway, just to show you all my life.
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Book Tour - and two giveaways!
Here's where I've been appearing the past few days:
Joyfully Jay, August 7, 2013 : Why Historical Romance?
Pants Off Reviews, August 7, 2013 : Bisexual Men in Regency Romance
Alex Beecroft, Giveaway! August 8, 2013 : The Role of Women in MMF Historical Romance
M. A. Church, August 9, 2013: another take on why I write historical romance
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The book tour continues!
I'm over at World of Diversity today, talking about bringing same-sex relationships and working-class characters into the upper-class, marriage-minded world of the Regency romance.
Meanwhile, my visit with
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the little pleasures of a writer's life
Sitting on the sofa next to a good friend and listening while she reads the manuscript of your latest short story.
If you can arrange to have had terrific Indian food right before that, so much the better.
I'm at
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My writing and my family
Even though I knew my parents weren't going to read my book - at my request, I might add, because I am much too embarrassed to know that my mother might read explicit sex scenes that I wrote - I dedicated my book to them, which made them very happy.
My mother said, "Now we have a book dedicated to us by each of our children. Not very many parents ( Read more... ) -
I now begin to understand the true breadth and depth of "catwaxing".
That is, stuff you start doing to avoid doing OTHER things you need to do.
I've been working on stuff for my upcoming blog tour to promote Love Continuance and Increasing. I've got a partial list of where I'll be appearing up at my website , if you're curious, though of course I'll be announcing them here as they go up.
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Bookplates!
Two head cleanings and a head alignment check later, my printer is cooperating with me again. So I'm able to print bookplates on 3⅓"x4" matte labels, customized with the beautiful logo that
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Official author website/blog!
I took the plunge and created an actual Wordpress site: www.julian-griffith.com. It's new, so there aren't a lot of posts yet, but I also linked a couple of short stories related to Love Continuance and Increasing, and you should all go look at it and see the GORGEOUS banner that
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