Howdy, Readers & Well-Wishers!
While I’m working on my next full post for this page, which should be available sometime today or tomorrow, I just wanted to tie up a few loose ends here and there.
First off, there is a wonderful new interview with me from the charming Miss Kim over at the SOS ALOHA blog. I may not be making it over to beautiful Hawaii any time soon, but I’m glad my books are. You can find the specific post about me here. Her website combines all the awesomeness of promoting indie authors with the cynical, bitter reality or remembering that most of us do not live in a tropical paradise.
I will shortly be conducting another interview with the fine ex-pats (always reminds me of X-Men) at The Displaced Nation, which seems like the perfect tie in for Naked in Korea. Keep an eye out for that and I’ll let you know when the interview lands. In the meantime, cruise on over to their page and have a gander at some pretty cool travelogues and memoirs. They run a very fine-looking site.
In other news, I apologize sincerely to anyone who I have been pestering on Twitter lately. I’ll be honest; I got a little greedy and upped my Twitter-Bot to 250 posts a day. This actually had the reverse effect for my site that I had intended, plummeting my views from 750 a day to a meager 300. Oh well, this is how we learn. I took it upon myself to experiment a little and it backfired. Fortunately, I’ve already scaled my tweets back down so as not to annoy the crap out of everyone. I’m considering starting a separate Twitter account for all of my book promotions, but I have yet to figure out how exactly that might be a less obnoxious alternative.
I also apologize to you if you’ve happened to find yourself blocked by me on Twitter. Honestly, I think the odds are very remote that this has happened to any of you. But I do routinely block people for posting hateful, divisive, and (chiefly) ignorant propaganda against Democrats OR Republicans. I’m also not on Twitter to be religiously persuaded, so I routinely block folks who do nothing but SPAM me with messages from various deities, holy books, or what have you. I’m on Twitter to follow and be followed strictly by other writers and readers; anyone else is collateral damage, so far as I’m concerned. Thank you for understanding.
Finally, everything seems to be coming together for me to have The Last Cup published on about August 29th, marking the culmination of my long-awaited (I’m speaking primarily for myself) return to fiction. The official release date is September 1st, 2012, but I would not be surprised to see it drop a bit earlier. Edits are going really well and, above all, I think I’m finally truly happy with the story I’ve crafted. Obviously, I’ll be making huge posts about that in the coming weeks and, if all goes according to plan, I should have at least one more book out by Christmas. It might even be another pseudo-science-fiction endeavor.
Thank you again so much to those of you who have followed this blog religiously. I’m trying to do a better job at replying to comments. Some of you are just too awesome for me to keep ignoring and I’m thrilled to have shared some laughs with many of you. Luckily, I’ve even had a few agents poking around here and there in response to some of my articles. If you’re listening, agents, I’M STILL LOOKING FOR ONE OF YOU TO REPRESENT ME!!! WHAT’S IT GONNA TAKE???
Okay, I’m out of here. …Starting to sound desperate now.
Peace,
Sean
