There's a dreadfully on-target essay in the just-released NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW that captures the typical experience of having a book come out. It's at www. nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/23royte.html. (Sorry I haven't yet figured out how to make a neat little click out of that.) It offers details that made me cringe with recognition: the period called The Big Suck-up, in which the author sends flowers and candy to her publicist, for example.
The piece even included The Honeymoon and the moments of boundless hope and euphoria. And yet...the bottom line was what the author called "self-induced misery."
And yet...how we all crave to do it again--and immediately. This minute!!! And don't try to get in my way!!!
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Well, I'll be an optimist for the moment and believe that while the experience the article describes is probably all too common, writers themselves can help it go in a different direction, by launching their own publicity and online marketing efforts. But perhaps I'm naive since my first book hasn't yet come out! Peggy, thanks for your kind words about the Daring Female blog!
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