“I Get High with a Little Help from My Friends” by Jackie Gamber
Literary Underworld Blog Tour “I Get High with a Little Help from My Friends” by Jackie Gamber, author of Book I and II of the Leland Dragon Series Yes, we all know what the Beatles meant about getting high with friends, and no, that’s not my interpretation of the title for this blog; the second in a “Friends” series for the Literary Underworld blog tour. A big thank you to Sara for hosting me on her blog! But what is the Literary Underworld? It’s a consortium of friends–spreading the word, selling books, and helping each other. Purchases help support authors, small presses, artists and other creative folks trying to survive in trying economic times. With categories such as Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Thriller, Paranormal, and...
Committing bloggery!
So this week, a bunch of us at the Literary Underworld are taking a blog tour around the blogosphere to do some blogging! You get the idea. I’ll be posting the link to where I’ve landed but first I’m going to give my slice of cyberspace over to Jackie Gamber! Stay tuned!
I have hacked the UNIVERSE
Ok, I haven’t, but I FEEL like it. Now everyone on EVERY SOCIAL NETWORK I’M ON can get the latest news and updates from me from a single location! I write here at my website and viola! it it posted to Dreamwidth, LJ, Twitter, and Facebook, and also Amazon and Goodreads, too. I AM A CROSSPOSTING GODDESS I’M TELLING YOU! This is me, pleased with myself. *preens* Carry on.
If this works…
I will be creating the most awesome subspace crossposter OF DOOOOM! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
The relationships of writing
I think of myself as a serial monogamist when it comes to writing. I write novels, primarily one at a time. I am almost never not working on a novel. This is one of the reasons why short stories are so difficult for me. First, I tend to think large. So my stories all want to grow up to be novels. It’s hard to keep pace and focus for me in a short piece, they are either very short 2,000 +/- word vignettes or 10K behemoths that I can’t sell because they outweigh most markets. Second, I always feels like I am cheating on my novel. I know that’s super weird, but I think I need to learn to be polyamorous with my writing. Or at least, learn to appreciate a good one-night-stand with a short story and not freak myself out that I have somehow taken...
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