As part of the writing shift, I'm spending a lot more time researching channels and mechanisms, especially publishing and distribution online. Recently I signed up for a new scifi distribution site* that was promoted on io9, and with that got an e-mail and offer to download a free e-book. Great, I thought.
I started to click on summaries of each of the nine books I could take, and there were some space colony ones, zombie virus ones and the like. All fine, I like those genres too. And then there was one that looked a bit different, so I clicked on it. And saw the author. And that clicked too ...
Because the book was actually written by a former colleague of mine -- the global IT director at my previous PR agency. His name of course rang a bell thanks to numerous IT policy memos. And with a few quick searches I realized yes, it was him, the agency even had a blog post about his moonlighting writing career. Small world.
So, if I had been in need of motivation to keep going on this journey, problem solved. Happy for your success, Michael, and I hope to join you soon in that rare club of Textie scifi scribes. And of course, yours was the book I chose for my free download, so I look forward to reading it and seeing what you've been up to.
*discoverscifi.com, which will give anyone a free e-book, actually, so those interested should sign up ...
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