I am please to welcome Crymsyn Hart as a guest today. She takes the time to talk about writing and her process. Welcome welcome.
The Process
In a little over a month, I’m heading to a new writer’s convention in
Louisville, KY called Imaginarium. Because I’m preparing to go I’ve had to
order stock so I can (hopefully) sell my books. Along with the other swag that
I have and a few other things I still have to get. However, the first of my
books showed up yesterday all neatly stacked and smelling like heaven. It was
like being in a bookstore and inhaling the sweet perfume of paper. Sadly, I
have never seen my book on a shelf in a large bookstore, but I’ve come to terms
with that these past many years.
However, that doesn’t break my excitement when I see my books in print. Let’s
face it, I suspect that it’s every author’s dream or to get a publishing
contact that will net the a million dollars. If only it were that easy.
Writing is not an easy job. It can suck the life out of you. It can leave you
emotionally broken and half-crazy because of something your characters did and
you didn’t know about at the time you plotted your novel. Writing can show you
the twists and turns of your imagination that you never knew existed. And
that’s all in the first page.
But writing is also a job.
I think some people forget that.
Once you finish the first draft you have to go back and edit, shredding the
pages you poured your heart into. Then once you edit the book you have to
find a publisher, agent, or self publish. If you go my route, the indie one,
then you wait on being accepted, agonizing over if they will like the book. And
then you get the rejection and are devastated. Don’t stop there. Move onto the
next one and then you get the acceptance. Joy. Elation. You have been validated
for all your long hard hours of working. The late nights staring at the
blinking cursor on the unforgiving white screen have all been worth it. Next it
goes to an editor and (assuming you get a good one) then you child comes back
to you battered and bruised by red ink and comments off to the side. You cry
and curse the editor because what do they know about your work. Nevertheless,
you toil through the edits and realize that sometimes the editor is your friend
and knows what they are doing, but it doesn’t mean that you don’t secretly hate
them for touching your baby.
Once the edits are done and the book is polished, then it hits the markets.
Then the dreaded, marketing (which I freely admit is not my strong point). What
do you do then?
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Beg friends to buy the book.
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Beg strangers to buy the book.
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Beg friends and strangers to blog
about the book.
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Tweet
constantly about it and all the links you can get the book.
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Facebook the hell
out of it in groups (basically again begging people to buy your book)
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Beg some more strangers to buy your
book.
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Watch the Amazon ranking
constantly to see if the book is selling.
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Obsess on Goodreads
to sees what reviews or stars have come in.
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Tell your waitress at your local
breakfast stop you have a book out.
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Tell everyone you know.
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When that is all done you jump up
and down at the royalties that come in because it’s official.
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You’re a true published author.
Then you join convention to do some
more marketing and meet some interesting people and make great connections and
do some schmoozing to sell more books. All the while you are writing your next
book hoping it will become a best seller.
Once that is done, the process begins all over again.
In this whole process I’m in several stages. Getting ready for a con. Editing a
book to send to a publisher. Blogging to promote a book. Writing another book
and courting another new publisher, hoping they want it.
So the process never really ends. It just depends on where you are.
Oh....yeah. I forgot.
Death’s Dance Buy
Links:
To find out more about Crymsyn:
About Crymsyn Hart: Crymsyn Hart is a national bestselling
author of over seventy paranormal romance and horror novels. Her experiences as
a psychic have given her a lot of material to use in her books. She currently
resides in Charlotte, NC with her hubby and her three dogs. If she’s not
writing, she’s curled up with the dogs watching a good horror movie or off with
friends.
To find out more about Crymsyn Hart, please visit her
website at www.ravynhart.com
Death’s Dance Book
Synopsis: Being a psychic, you would
think talking to the dead was a walk in the park. However, it’s not always that
simple. The hooded specter haunting me is one I’ve been dreaming about since I
was a kid. One day, he appeared in my bedroom mirror. Good. Evil. I don’t know
what his true intentions are.
Enter Jackson, ghost hunting show host extraordinaire, and
my ex, to save me from the big bad ghost.
From there…well…it’s been a world wind of complications. My
house burnt down. I’m being stalked by an ancient evil and gotten myself back
into the world of being a ghost hunting psychic. Jackson dragged me, along with
a few other psychics, to a ghost town wiped off the map called Death’s Dance.
From there things went from bad to worse.
Death's Dance is Book One of the Deathly Encounters Series
Author Links:
Tour Schedule and
Activities
8/18 Jess
Resides Here Interview
8/18 The
Southern Belle from Hell Top
Ten
8/18 Beauty
in Ruins Guest
Post
8/19 Darkling
Delights Guest
Post
8/19 Deal
Sharing Aunt Top
Ten
8/19 Shells
interviews Guest
Post
8/20 Stuart
Conover's Author Page Interview
8/20 SpecMusicMuse Interview
8/20 Azure
Dwarf Post
on Artwork
8/21 Come
Selahway with Me Top
Ten
8/21 Armand
Rosamilia, Horror Author Guest
Post
8/21 SocialBookShelves.com Review
8/21 Blog
of Sheila Deeth Character
Post
8/21 A
Haunted Head Guest
Post
8/21 The
Official Writing Blog of Deedee Davies Top
Ten
8/22 SBM
Book Obsession Review
8/22 Bee's
Knees Reviews Guest
Post
8/22 Seers,
Seraphs, Immortals & More Interview
8/23 Reading
Away The Days Review
8/23 Sapphyria's
Book Reviews Excerpt
8/23 Horror
Tree Guest
Post
8/24 Willow's
Author Love Review
8/24 The
Rage Circus Vs. The Soulless Void Review
8/24 Bookishly
Me Review
8/24 LucyBlueCastle Guest
Post
Amazon Links for Death’s
Dance:
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About Bob Freeman: Bob Freeman doesn’t just write and draw occult detectives, he’s also a card carrying paranormal adventurer who founded Nightstalkers of Indiana in 1983.
A lifelong student of witchcraft, magic, and religion, Bob’s studies are reflected in his art, both as an author and illustrator.
Bob lives in rural Indiana with his wife Kim and son Connor.
He can be found online at occultdetective.com
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