Sam's Backup Page ([personal profile] cblj_backup) wrote2011-10-26 09:02 am
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I tested out Wordpress's auto-post function this morning by writing a post yesterday and telling it to post today. It works, apparently. It's probably a good thing I checked twitter or I'd have forgotten I did it. The new post is "Forgive Me My Letters" which is a short dissertation on a) why writers are so bad at writing letters and b) how scary book reviewers can seem.

I'd post the letters I wrote, but let's see if they get any results before we go down that particular path...

I think a couple of you spoke to me about soliciting reviews from contacts you have, but I appear to have lost that information, because I am a congenitally disorganised person. I'll probably find it two weeks from now. But yes, here's a general call: if you know someone who does reviews for a zine, magazine, journal, or review website, let me know and I'll get in touch with them. I HAVE A LETTER.
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[identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I....actually don't use Google Reader at all :D I find it completely baffling, I don't understand how it works. But I do use Google Plus, so it's probably good reading...

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
That reminds me: it is LESBIAN STEAMPUNK LAUNCH DAY!!!! Review early and often!

[identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
GAH I still have it! I have to read it!

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
My fault for not reminding you. Stupid "real life."

You could just read my piece and wax upon how brilliant it is, but that would be doing a lot of other authors (and lesbian protagonists!) a disservice.

[identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's mostly that if I don't have it in print form, it's harder to find a time to read it -- I can't read it on the train, etc. But I will read, I swear!

[identity profile] firynze.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sam, Sam, Sam, do I have to come over there and teach you how to use Stanza on your iPhone?

[identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It's too tiny! D: I get a cramp from hunching over to try and read it. Also Chicago is not a good place to have an iPhone out any more than necessary...

[identity profile] firynze.livejournal.com 2011-10-26 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigh. I spent most of today writing emails to authors asking them to blurb various C&G books. I find this even more nerve-wracking than writing reviewer letters, because at least the reviewers are being paid to read this shit.

If reviewers got paid, I could quit my job...

(Anonymous) 2011-10-27 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
...Well, at least I could take a day off now and then. I've been reviewing children's books for ten years for a library magazine, and I get to keep the books, but there's no money in it! --Becca

Re: If reviewers got paid, I could quit my job...

[identity profile] firynze.livejournal.com 2011-10-27 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I should rephrase - the people who get the letters and distribute the books to the reviewers are paid! The reviewers themselves usually just get the books, you're all too right.

[identity profile] tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com 2011-10-27 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Word Vagabond reviews self and indie publications. (http://wordvagabond.wordpress.com/about/)

[identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
AHA! I think that was one of the ones I lost! Thank you :)
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