Skepticism and leeriness are two things that go through readers' mind when you…

1. … boldly announce that you'll put out [[[ insert some ungodly number ]]] of books per day (or week, or month, or year)
2. … proclaim that you don't have the money or resources to get good betas, crit partners, and/or editor(s)
3. … declare that you're too good to have to waste time with things like editors, CPs, etc.
4. … publish books with homemade covers
5. … publish books with one too many errors
6. … excuse errors in your titles by saying how other publishers/authors also have errors in theirs
7. … whine about how horrible your readers are because they aren't writing glowing reviews and creating word-of-mouth for you
8. … whine about bad reviews and/or attack reviewers/readers

Readers & reviewers — Want to add more to the list? Feel free.

I will not be blogging until I'm done with All the King's Women revision. Currently I have too many things to do and not enough time.

See you later! :)

How's everyone doing?

BTW — My site host is having a lot of problems with its email server. If you sent me an email requiring my response but haven't heard back, please resend later or leave me a comment with your contact information, and I'll be happy to send you a note from my gmail account.

Thanks!

Re: NaNoWriMo — I wasn't going to do it, but…I signed up. Why? Because I'm incredibly excited about All the King's Women. (It's got a king with an inferiority complex, a harem full of Machiavellian women, a courtesan and a hot alpha hero.) I want to finish the first draft in November. Although I'm ultimately aiming the story to be about 100k long, the initial draft is going to end up somewhere between 75-85K.

Re: MySpace — I soooo wasn't going to make an account, but I succumbed. If you want to friend me, feel free.

Re: guest blogging — I blogged about breaking rules to promote Devil Falls w/a Angelle Trieste. Check it out here.

1. I'm not looking for critique partners anymore. If you're thinking about contacting me because you saw my wanted post, please don't. Thanks.

2. I'm going on a hiatus. No personal problems or crises here. It's just that I'm in the middle of working on my new project ideas, characters, etc. and I don't want to be distracted. This also means I won't be on IM or Twitter, for those of you who have my contact info there. I will, of course, be available via email. I will blog, but not as often as before.

3. If I have no idea who you are, I'm not going to approve your request to see my Twitter updates. It's not that I'm trying to be exclusive or elitist, but I just don't feel comfortable adding strangers I've never met in real life or online before, esp. because I tend to yap a lot about a lot of inconsequential stuff there.