Self-Promotion for Authors

[C.W. LaSart]

Thanks Richard. It's a lot of grunt work, and I intend to grunt the whole time, but it's a learning experience and a way to serve the HWA.

[RichardThomas]

yeah, i hear you. i've edited a few magazines and it's a lot of reading, a lot of bad writing, but it's always cool to find something exciting. knowing you're a part of the Stokers, an award that can really help somebody to emerge and gain some recognition as an author, that's pretty cool.

[C.W. LaSart]

Exactly! Also, growing up with dreams of owning one of those little haunted houses myself one day, it's just cool to have a hand in it, albeit small.

[Randy D. Rubin]

Right now I'd be happy just to qualify for membership in HWA. One more published story ought to do the trick. I'm almost there!

[C.W. LaSart]

Keep it going Randy! I'm working toward becoming an active member this year, but those pro-paying markets are scarce, and hard to get into.

[Randy D. Rubin]

No truer words have ever been typed, Cee Dub.

[C.W. LaSart]

My second WHC blog is up. I thought some of you might enjoy reading about how goofy I was when I met Robert McCammon http://www.cwlasart.com/?p=1201

[frik51]

Loved your story!
I've met Stephen King (well, almost....), but McCammon is still on my to-touch list...

sk

[peteOcha]

How did you almost meet King Siep?

[frik51]

Well...meet....maybe that was a little exaggeration.
We did breathe the same air....
(NYC, Harry, Carrie and Garp...)
I did meet George Beahm though...

sk

[C.W. LaSart]

So cool Frik-I breathed the same air as King at a reading once, and McCammon is very touchable

[frik51]

Er...I once touched James Bond!
(Timothy Dalton)
This was at the premiere of one of the Bond flicks.

sk

[C.W. LaSart]

I'm jealous

[srboone]

Er...I once touched James Bond!
(Timothy Dalton)
This was at the premiere of one of the Bond flicks.

sk

Cool, Siep! I too am jealous of you (but I think you know that already--I'm one of those blasphemous persons who thinks TD was the best Bond!)

[RichardThomas]

My dark little bit of magical realism, "Fireflies," is included in Polluto 9, just out. This is from Dog Horn Publishing, they do some wild stuff.

http://polluto.com/issues/issues.html