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Weee! I'm a book reviewer!
Jan. 23rd, 2006 09:29 pmToday I got my first shipment of books to be reviewed in the mail. I volunteered on a listserv to be a reviewer and they sent me books. Yay! Of course, unlike many reviewer gigs, I do not get to keep the books. Sad. But it means I have fiction to get me through the long weekend until the publication of the latest Laurell K. Hamilton book. Yay!
I was reading stuff from the site Web Pages that Suck (http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/), and I realized that Laurell K. Hamilton's website (http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/) is a great example of having "heroin". It gives me free chapters of upcoming books, thus whetting my appetite to a fever pitch, and then tells me the exact day I can buy this book. Yay for me! Yay for their first week sales! Everyone wins. Also, there is a frequently updated blog! Yayayayay.
Sigh. Much as I love Robin McKinley, and all of her books, and the content on her perfectly nice website (http://www.robinmckinley.com/), it lacks "heroin". I dutifully check it every month or so, but there is rarely new content. Ms. McKinley is a much less commercial writer than Ms. Hamilton, and writes far fewer books, so this makes sense. Charlaine Harris (http://www.charlaineharris.com/) and Kelley Armstrong (http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/) also provide good "heroin", mostly in giveaway chapters, blogs, calendar announcements, and so forth. I don't know why vampire writers should be especially good at this, in general, but I've found it to be so. *shrug*
I'm trying to decide about going to all the time/expense to make and pay for a webpage for myself. I mean with my own domain name, own hosting, et al. Good, because I'll have stable email/resume/portfolio as a jobhunt? Bad, because no one could care less? Good, because in ten years when I am a famous author, I won't have to get my name from some domain-name-buying-weirdo? Why am I even thinking about this? Especially when I don't ever spend time with "seat of pants" applied to "seat of chair" and thus may never BE a famous author? The questions continue.
I was reading stuff from the site Web Pages that Suck (http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/), and I realized that Laurell K. Hamilton's website (http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/) is a great example of having "heroin". It gives me free chapters of upcoming books, thus whetting my appetite to a fever pitch, and then tells me the exact day I can buy this book. Yay for me! Yay for their first week sales! Everyone wins. Also, there is a frequently updated blog! Yayayayay.
Sigh. Much as I love Robin McKinley, and all of her books, and the content on her perfectly nice website (http://www.robinmckinley.com/), it lacks "heroin". I dutifully check it every month or so, but there is rarely new content. Ms. McKinley is a much less commercial writer than Ms. Hamilton, and writes far fewer books, so this makes sense. Charlaine Harris (http://www.charlaineharris.com/) and Kelley Armstrong (http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/) also provide good "heroin", mostly in giveaway chapters, blogs, calendar announcements, and so forth. I don't know why vampire writers should be especially good at this, in general, but I've found it to be so. *shrug*
I'm trying to decide about going to all the time/expense to make and pay for a webpage for myself. I mean with my own domain name, own hosting, et al. Good, because I'll have stable email/resume/portfolio as a jobhunt? Bad, because no one could care less? Good, because in ten years when I am a famous author, I won't have to get my name from some domain-name-buying-weirdo? Why am I even thinking about this? Especially when I don't ever spend time with "seat of pants" applied to "seat of chair" and thus may never BE a famous author? The questions continue.
