Let's pretend I sell my big-girl book for a half-decent (re: not insulting?) amount of money.
Once I receive an offer of representation from an agent, I'm getting my husband to switch his overtime to comp time (all his overtime goes into days off). Then, once the book sells and comes out-- it will be time for the....
drum-roll please
BOOK AND CLIMBING TOUR AMERICA: PROPER SOUL EDITION.
(this supposes there will be further editions)
Now, I've done my research. I know big book tours are like, not really that good for authors anymore. But you know what? It's a fantastic excuse! Since it's not a "big" thing anymore, there will be no problem scheduling my hope-one-person-shows-up book readings/signing/awkwardness for bookstores outside America's greatest climbing locales.
There will be an RV.
I think I'll bring my kid brother along to help with the kids.
I'll blog our adventures (that's the only thing I'm actually buying with the $30 dollar book advance-- a new camera).
And it will be glorious. Oh so glorious. Three weeks? A month? However long it takes to keep up a schedule of climbing/book thing/climbing/driving/book thing/climbing/driving, etc.
I can even pretend this will all work as part of a larger marketing scheme-- since PROPER SOUL introduces the reader to the rock-climber world.
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Other random "career goals" (okay, I put the joking in to demphasize how serious I am about making writing a career)
- Get on 98 Rock without being in the Jugs for Plugs segment. My husband will not like this, but the listeners of 98 Rock (Baltimore's rock station) are my target audience for the book, and they love all things Baltimore, so this one makes sense.
- Go on Oprah. Haha. Totes kidding.
-Do a lot of climbing and have like ten people who think I'm cool because I'm pretending to be kick-ass on America's Classic Moderates (this one in North Carolina is so on my tick list)
-Do a blog tour while J drives the RV.
- Meet David Simon/Ed Burns and cry my thanks for how much money they saved me in therapy/marriage counseling by ever deciding to write/make TV.
-Work hard. Do what my agent/publisher/editor suggest. Do more research on what things *I* can do in order to commit myself to making this book a success, with the knowledge that hard work makes a lot of luck.
- Take the kids to Minnesota and Manitoba with their great-grandmother. For book stuff. *cough* cough*.
Dude, sounds good to me :). And rock climbing your way across America is fantastic advertisement.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing I'm doing once I find an agent (it will happen, through sheer force of will...) is probably screaming my head off.
When my ms sells (fingers crossed), I'm taking that money and A) taking my patient and supportive hubs out to finally see the Dallas Cowboys live, and B) making a stop-motion book trailer, a la Maggie Stiefvater. And probably screaming some more. :)
And now back to the writing part....
Oh I will TOTALLY be screaming. And be like BOO-YAH, I WASN'T WASTING MY TIME! to my husband. (who will gently remind me that he was supportive this entire time...)
ReplyDeleteAnd I love your stop-motion book trailer idea, that's so cool. I read one of Stiefvater's books and enjoyed it...gonna have to go youtube the video. :)
I should take my husband to a Ravens/Steelers game. He'd love that! (he's a raven's fan-- I'm a steelers fan, haha)
Ha--there will probably be lots of boo-yahs on my part too.
DeleteM. Stiefvater's trailers are fantastic, especially the one for LINGER. Is it sad that I already have a storyboard drawn for my project, even though the ms isn't on sub yet? hahaha.
totally not sad! I think some of the creative non writing stuff keeps you going at the end...otherwise you're drowning in edits and loosing sight of anything fun.
DeleteI do my fair share of playing around on creative stuff...haha.