Best Books List / General Update
In hopes of expanding my publicity reach, I signed up with Shepherd to create a list of good books that my own titles would nestle in with, and wrote mini-reviews of the others.
https://shepherd.com/best-books/lgbtqia-ya-on-coming-out-and-coming-of-age
(That list is for GenderQueer; I've submitted a similar list for That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class which Shepard is still processing.)
It's an attempt to connect people who like one book with a listing of similar books they might also like, and the self-serving part of it is that your own book becomes linked with the others. When someone looks for a given book, they get dropped into lists that include that book.
It's a cute idea and since there's no financial outlay involved, I figured why not? I hope it catches on.
I'm slowly getting some critical feedback on Within the Box. Not as rapidly as I'd I'd like, mind you, but it's letting me patch over some holes and smooth over some rough spots. I usually tell reviewers that I'm mostly interested in feedback on the character development and plot trajectory and whether there are confusing portions and whether it holds their interest and so on. And not to bother futzing around with my typos and grammatical errors. But I have one reviewer who is such a phenomenally good copy editor that I'm not inclinclined to say anything to change what they're doing! (I do generally spell quite well and my grammar skills are pretty tight too, give or take some of the weirdness of English punctuation -- especially the rules governing quotation marks and how they intersperse with other symbols. (Because those rules are just wrong!). But one problem with being an author is that you know what you intended to say, and don't always notice that you didn't, quite. Sometimes that even extends to typos and punctuation errors.
In other news, I was whining about how nobody reads my blog posts and was advised to go onto Substack. I had to Google it to learn what the hell Substack is, and then discovered to my amazement that I'd already opened an account with them, god knows when. Found an import function and used it to pull in all my existing blog posts from one of my other echo-sites.
Walked around all day with the B-52s' "Love Shack" playing earworm in my head before I realized why. So I'm on Substack, baby:
https://genderkitten.substack.com/
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My first book, GenderQueer: A Story From a Different Closet, is published by Sunstone Press. It is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in paperback, hardback, and ebook, and as ebook only from Apple, Kobo, and directly from Sunstone Press themselves.
My second book, That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class, has also now been published by Sunstone Press. It's a sequel to GenderQueer. It is available on Amazon and on Barnes & Noble in paperback and ebook, and as ebook only from Apple, Kobo, and directly from Sunstone Press themselves.
I have started querying my third book, Within the Box, and I'm still seeking advance readers for reviews and feedback. It is set in a psychiatric/rehab facility and is focused on self-determination and identity. Chronologically, it fits between the events in GenderQueer and those described in Guy in Women's Studies; unlike the other two, it is narrowly focused on events in a one-month timeframe and is more of a suspense thriller, although like the other two is also a nonfiction memoir. Contact me if you're interested.
Links to published reviews and comments are listed on my Home Page, for both published books.
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https://shepherd.com/best-books/lgbtqia-ya-on-coming-out-and-coming-of-age
(That list is for GenderQueer; I've submitted a similar list for That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class which Shepard is still processing.)
It's an attempt to connect people who like one book with a listing of similar books they might also like, and the self-serving part of it is that your own book becomes linked with the others. When someone looks for a given book, they get dropped into lists that include that book.
It's a cute idea and since there's no financial outlay involved, I figured why not? I hope it catches on.
I'm slowly getting some critical feedback on Within the Box. Not as rapidly as I'd I'd like, mind you, but it's letting me patch over some holes and smooth over some rough spots. I usually tell reviewers that I'm mostly interested in feedback on the character development and plot trajectory and whether there are confusing portions and whether it holds their interest and so on. And not to bother futzing around with my typos and grammatical errors. But I have one reviewer who is such a phenomenally good copy editor that I'm not inclinclined to say anything to change what they're doing! (I do generally spell quite well and my grammar skills are pretty tight too, give or take some of the weirdness of English punctuation -- especially the rules governing quotation marks and how they intersperse with other symbols. (Because those rules are just wrong!). But one problem with being an author is that you know what you intended to say, and don't always notice that you didn't, quite. Sometimes that even extends to typos and punctuation errors.
In other news, I was whining about how nobody reads my blog posts and was advised to go onto Substack. I had to Google it to learn what the hell Substack is, and then discovered to my amazement that I'd already opened an account with them, god knows when. Found an import function and used it to pull in all my existing blog posts from one of my other echo-sites.
Walked around all day with the B-52s' "Love Shack" playing earworm in my head before I realized why. So I'm on Substack, baby:
https://genderkitten.substack.com/
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My first book, GenderQueer: A Story From a Different Closet, is published by Sunstone Press. It is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in paperback, hardback, and ebook, and as ebook only from Apple, Kobo, and directly from Sunstone Press themselves.
My second book, That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class, has also now been published by Sunstone Press. It's a sequel to GenderQueer. It is available on Amazon and on Barnes & Noble in paperback and ebook, and as ebook only from Apple, Kobo, and directly from Sunstone Press themselves.
I have started querying my third book, Within the Box, and I'm still seeking advance readers for reviews and feedback. It is set in a psychiatric/rehab facility and is focused on self-determination and identity. Chronologically, it fits between the events in GenderQueer and those described in Guy in Women's Studies; unlike the other two, it is narrowly focused on events in a one-month timeframe and is more of a suspense thriller, although like the other two is also a nonfiction memoir. Contact me if you're interested.
Links to published reviews and comments are listed on my Home Page, for both published books.
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This DreamWidth blog is echoed on LiveJournal, Substack, and WordPress. Please friend/link me from any of those environments on which you have an account.
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Index of all Blog Posts