Just a quick note to say that I’m delighted to have been chosen Author of the Month by blogger Gina Rae Mitchell!
Here’s the post where she features Playing Army. It includes an excerpt and a bonus piece called 10 Things Most People Don’t Know About Me:
https://ginaraemitchell.com/playing-army/
Did you know all of it already? If not, leave a comment and let me know which one(s) surprised you!
Enjoy, and thanks for playing (Army)!
I like a good, quantifiable goal. I’m sure you’ve seen S.M.A.R.T. goals on a briefing slide somewhere, but if you haven’t tripped over that acronym before, you can read about it here. It’s hokey but I like them, and keep my goals and New Years resolutions achievable and quantifiable – write 300 words a day,…
A bit of a book review, more moodlin’ than maudlin: A conversation went deep at the Little Ripon Bookshop the other night, discussing how family stories are shaped and told (in reference to Kate Grenville’s Restless Dolly Maunder, a not very sympathetic fictionalization of her grandmother’s life that was shortlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize)….
Here’s the not-fun news about having a book coming out: you have to get out of your lil bubbly creative comfort zone and ask people for help. The help that you’re not paying for, but people’s time and creative energy. For me, for whom these are my most greedily hoarded resources, this is hard hard hard to do. It’s not my default to ask for things. I always assume the other person will groan inwardly at a request from one more writer coming at them, palm up.
But we all know what happens when you assume, right?
All of my journaling about staying in a bad situation or going to an unknown (but also guaranteed to be difficult) one led to two pro-con lists that cancelled each other out entirely. What was good about one element was negated by something pretty awful on the other side.
First, the unboxing video! Videos of writers opening boxes of their books are A Thing. By now you’ve all seen the cover of Playing Army, but this is where I hold the physical book in my hand for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuKDmHRCgfQ Yay! And thank you to Colette for making the video, but I wish…
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Hey, so fun! I only knew a few of these things about you. It’s wonderful to see Playing Army featured on Gina Rae Mitchell’s blog.
Hi Nancy,
Thanks for sharing my post. I’m so happy to have you as my latest Author of the Month.
You were chosen based on the number of visitors to my feature/review of your book, combined with the number of shares and comments for the previous month according to my blog stats.
So it really is in an Indie Author’s best interest to share the post and interact with the commenters, and there is certainly no shame in promoting my post to all your fans!
Congrats again!
Gina