One more announcement--Tom Church of Role Play Public Radio was kind enough to interview me a few weeks ago. Here are the fruits of his labor. Hopefully, I talked a bit less quickly, and rambled less this time. http://slangdesign.com/rppr/ Thank you so much, Tom, for having me on the podcast! One question I was surprised that he didn't follow up on, was, after asking me about what music I listened to while writing, I told him that it pretty much has to be instrumental. Words from music tend to get in my way, unless it's a song that completely *means* a certain character to me, or a certain scene. In which case, I will crank that song or set of songs while I'm writing that character or scen
Well, I have officially contracted with Smith Publicity to be my publicists for a four-week campaign for The Valkyrie and The Goddess Denied. They've been nothing but pleasurably professional so far, and I'm looking forward to working with them. However, sending them their payment and starting it off. . . it's a scary proposition. I *know* I'll have a lot of followup to do on my own behalf after the campaign's done; they'll just be giving me a toe in the door with their industry contacts. Quite a lot of the work in this is on *me*, and I'm perfectly fine with that. You never get anywhere in life without being willing to do the work, after all. The optimist in me thinks that this is my be