AJLR gets serious.
OK, campaign starts now…:)
Just so it is possible to get some idea re what size of audience there might be, could any of your readers who would attend a publicity or signing event in London, sometime in the next few months, please go here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xnULTPtfKkUiadr9hdr1Tg_3d_3d and fill in the (very brief) details asked for, please? The only required field is name/blog name, just so there’s less possibility of a mistake in potential numbers. :)
The survey will be open until – well, whenever you say. I’ve put it to close in a week’s time (17 August) at the moment but that can be changed to whatever you feel appropriate.
I/we might as well get hung as sheep than lambs. And as I just said in answer to some other comment, the action plan to persuade my UK publisher to arrange a bookstore signing or equivalent in London is an experiment in the practical application of a blog. Go for it.
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If it happens and it’s a time/day when I can get there I would definitely come (and would possibly be able to bring some friends – book buying friends – including some buffy fanatics…)
Oooh. Buffy fanatics are good. But I have middle-aged brain (on the subject of quote retention I was BORN with middle aged brain) and I will NOT be able to enter into quote-fencing matches. Be warned I am No Fun at All. :)
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**Oooh. Buffy fanatics are good. But I have middle-aged brain (on the subject of quote retention I was BORN with middle aged brain) and I will NOT be able to enter into quote-fencing matches. Be warned I am No Fun at All. :)**
*grin*
I’m not one for quoting things anyway (although I DO have a t-shirt with “Fire bad. Tree pretty” on it….)
And I have to disagree with your last statement!
Can a button be included on Survey Monkey that reads “I wish!!!!”
because I would be pushing that one.
a lot!
*sigh*
Me too!
*sigh*
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Well, if publishers *want* you to blog, they should be prepared to deal with the practical results. They should be HAPPY to do that if it sells some books–that’s the point, no? Go blogfolks!
PUblishers want to sell books. They just keep changing their minds how best to accomplish this.
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Oh, I am so envious – in a good way! I’ll be so happy for eyerybody who can attend if you pull it off! I suppose I can be there in spirit…
Anyway, hoping for your success (and I’ll add a little prayer too – can’t do any harm after all!)
Also – are your publishers a little (gestures toward forehead)?
ALL publishers are a little (gestures . . . )
Come as your favourite character in spirit. :)
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Well then – if you feel a “small, round skull” against your hand and hear purring, that will be me in Fourpaws-spirt-form!
I can’t possibly give up the opportunity of being a cat, now can I?:) The rest of the time I’ll find some nice, cosy spot to curl up in – maybe with my head restfully on my legs and my tail tucked around me…
Got it. I’ll keep my eyes open. :)
I wish… but now is the only time this year when I will be in England, as far as I can see and my wallet can predict
Would love to but live in Italy so would have to plan ahead and have money . . . come to Italy instead?:)
Offer me a villa in Tuscany and I’m there. :)
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There’s a service called Eventful (http://eventful.com/) that does this sort of thing on a larger scale, it allows interested parties to request a performer in their local area, and then lets artists gauge demand for performances when planning a tour.
I know of it through the musician Jonathan Coulton, a singer songwriter of geeky sci-fi songs (mostly) from Connecticut. He’s used it to great effect to construct small tours in the UK, selling out shows in London, as well as smaller cities across the US.
I realize you’re not likely to be embarking on a worldwide book tour anytime soon, but thought it might be nice to see how much interest there is in one, and where it lives.
Cheers, Sean
I know I *should* be interested but . . . I’m not. I took my publisher literally when they said ‘blog or tour’. My mistake. If I get invited to do a signing in London, I’ll do it, but I’m not LOOKING for trouble. Also, I have these hellhounds. . . .
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Perhaps if you’re unsuccessful in weaseling out of the Pegasus tour then :)
:)
Given that Merrilee has recently been successfully arm-wrestling your UK publishers, would she have a name we could write to, perhaps?
In the first place, probably not. In the second place, having asked my editor and been fobbed off, it would be rude.
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OK, fair enough. I’m a complete ignoramous regarding publisher etiquette.
Can we lobby them for an Australian tour?
You can try. :)
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We have to seriously fix her Hellhound problem first :/
Then we can fight over who gets to meet them at the airport LOL.
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Knock yourselves out. :)
The UK is one of the low-risk countries, so it’d only be 30 days in quarantine. We might as well make it worth Robin’s while.
LOL! Don’t forget the SHIP out there! The luxury cruise liner with the half mile deck circuit for exercising hellhounds! :)
We might as well make it worth Robin’s while.
Oh absolutely. I have plenty of acreage here for the hellhounds to exercise on and chase rabbits. ;)
The may not allow the hellhounds on the cruiseliner so we may have to go for 1st class with BA. ;)
Btw. Good thing it isn’t NOW as Belle is in season :p
Oh, well be sure the hellhounds have their OWN first class tickets. (36 hours on a plane . . . now THAT will challenge their bladder control. . . . )
I am also in the “I wish” group. I do plan a visit to London, and would love to get a chance to get my worn copy of Deerskin signed so I would go if I could…
I’ve just filled in my form* – anytime, beasts optional lol
* Thought I better had hee hee