I was talking to someone who writes childrens’ books. He has a publisher, but is on his own to find an artist. He said he hates working with artists, that they make him want to pull out his hair. I understand because I feel the same way about writers. (Except for you, of course!)
I have a couple o
f blogs where I promote other authors because . . . To be honest, I forget why. Maybe because I thought by helping other authors, the karmic energy would help catapult my books out of obscurity, but it didn’t work that way. And now doing the author interviews has become a bad habit.
I’ve been posting a lot of such interviews lately, and oh, my. I have come to believe that authors don’t know how to read. Or maybe they have such an overweening sense of entitlement because of their “talent,” they think the directions don’t apply to them. Whatever the reason, too many of them don’t follow directions, give only half the required information (such as book title), leave off the questions and post answers that make no sense without the questions, and the most heinous sin of all — write boring responses.
I’d mostly been taking a break from this self-imposed task, so I thought I’d be able to handle the idiocies of it once again, but apparently not. Of course, it could be I’ve just gotten too crotchety to take lightly the idiocies of the world.
I like being nice, but not when being nice makes me feel . . . not nice.
Still, I do have the blogs, and I do have the time, so if you wish me to interview you, and if I haven’t scared you off, click here to find the directions for my Author Questionnaire.
Click here to find the directions for my Character Questionnaire.
Click here to Let me post your excerpt!
And please, please click here learn How To Do an Online Interview
I promise I won’t be crotchety. At least not much.
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Pat Bertram is the author of the suspense novels Light Bringer, More Deaths Than One, A Spark of Heavenly Fire, and Daughter Am I. Bertram is also the author of Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.” Connect with Pat on Google+. Like Pat on Facebook.
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February 28, 2015 at 6:25 pm
I hope I haven’t been contributing to those problems, Pat!
February 28, 2015 at 6:27 pm
No. of course not. I enjoy our interactions, and your interviews were done right and was interesting. I think you did two?
February 28, 2015 at 6:29 pm
Yeah, I’ll probably do a third when I have another book come out. Not sure when that’ll be, but you’ll be one of the first to know when it happens.
February 28, 2015 at 6:34 pm
Yay!
March 1, 2015 at 6:17 am
I’ve done a few interviews on my blog as well and have to say that while I had fun doing them, the feature didn’t bring me a karma train full of book sales money. You’ve done so many posts by now, all of your books would be bestsellers if the universe were handing out rewards.