So, you’re an author…
October 31st 2006 01:59
“No sooner do you pop it out,” a girlfriend was explaining to me one day over coffee. “Then everyone starts asking, ‘When are you having your next baby?’” She threw her hands up in the air in exasperation, but her expression told me she didn’t expect me to add any of my own stories to the conversation. After all, I don’t have kids. But instead, I nodded my head in shared frustration. “Oh, I know!” I cried. I may not have kids, but I am a published author.
When I was doing the publicity for my first book, which was published last year, it was the one question interviewers always asked. “So, have you started the next one yet?” they smiled enthusiastically. “I guess you’re working on your next book now,” my friends would add, as if it were a given.
I would smile knowingly and wink as if to say, “You’ll just have to wait” but the truth was, after a grueling publicity schedule on top of a family tragedy, the only think I wanted to be working on was some seriously long periods beneath my doona.
“I’m thinking of writing a book” is the second most often comment made to authors. Everyone is either writing a book, thinking of writing a book, or has written one and is trying to get it published.
My uncle is thinking of writing a book about our family history (trust me, until quite recently, it hasn’t been that interesting). My doctor is trying to make time to write a book (actually, his surgery being right in the middle of Melbourne’s red light district, his would be quite interesting. Even my accountant has an idea for a book. It’s about an accountant and apparently it’s really funny.
Mostly I nod and smile and listen to people telling me about the books they are writing / thinking of writing / have written. As for questions about when they can expect my next book, well, about that…
When I was doing the publicity for my first book, which was published last year, it was the one question interviewers always asked. “So, have you started the next one yet?” they smiled enthusiastically. “I guess you’re working on your next book now,” my friends would add, as if it were a given.
I would smile knowingly and wink as if to say, “You’ll just have to wait” but the truth was, after a grueling publicity schedule on top of a family tragedy, the only think I wanted to be working on was some seriously long periods beneath my doona.
“I’m thinking of writing a book” is the second most often comment made to authors. Everyone is either writing a book, thinking of writing a book, or has written one and is trying to get it published.
My uncle is thinking of writing a book about our family history (trust me, until quite recently, it hasn’t been that interesting). My doctor is trying to make time to write a book (actually, his surgery being right in the middle of Melbourne’s red light district, his would be quite interesting. Even my accountant has an idea for a book. It’s about an accountant and apparently it’s really funny.
Mostly I nod and smile and listen to people telling me about the books they are writing / thinking of writing / have written. As for questions about when they can expect my next book, well, about that…
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Comment by Adele
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Comment by Margaret
Comment by K.L. Almeroth
Motherhood
I can only long and wish for this kind of pressure!
What's your book, by the way?? I'm an avid reader. Love books.
K.L.
Comment by Margaret
Have you written a book but are having trouble getting it published or are you currently writing a book? Or even dreaming of a time when you had the time to write a book??
Comment by K.L. Almeroth
Motherhood
Hi Margaret,
Yes, I've written a book...a couple, actually, but have not been published...or even picked up by an agent!
But, yes, I dream about having loads more writing time...
Oh well. There's always the school years!
K.L.
P.S. Will check out your site.