I gave in. I went to Borders on my lunch and it was sitting there on the New Paperbacks table. So I bought it. I just couldn’t wait for Wizards to deliver my author’s copies. (Actually, my wife was the one who broke down and wanted to by it–not that I didn’t, but I knew [...]
Dragons in my hands
Filed under Writing Journal on April 27, 2005
Tagged: Maiden of Pain, press releases, Realms of the Dragons II
Cranking up the marketing machine
Filed under Writing Journal on April 26, 2005
Tagged: Maiden of Pain
I heard back from Ginger today. The bad news is there will be no release of my original submission. Wizards felt it would unduly influence future open calls, and they want the process to be as opaque as possible. I can understand, but I’m disappointed I won’t get to share this. If anyone is interested, [...]
Check that off the to-do list
Filed under Writing Journal on April 19, 2005
Tagged: Maiden of Pain
I emailed Ginger Ahn, the marketing person for books over at WotC, a copy of the press release for Maiden and my original excerpt I sent in for the open call. Legal has to approve both before I can send the former to local news outlets and post the latter to the website. I also [...]
Maiden’s rank
Filed under Writing Journal on March 17, 2005
Tagged: Amazon.com, Maiden of Pain
I need to give a big shout out to all my readers. When I first learned that the cover for Maiden of Pain was posted on Amazon, I raced over there to see it. After “ooohing” and “aaahing”, I scrolled down to see what text was being used to promote the book. I also noticed [...]
Proposals and press releases
Filed under Writing Journal on March 9, 2005
Tagged: GenCon, Maiden of Pain
I finished up my book proposal last night. Gonna let it sit for a couple days before sending it off. Marketing for Maiden has been on my mind a lot recently. I’m not sure to what extent WotC publicizes book releases, and I’ve had some ideas swirling around in my head. I’ll run everything by [...]
