{"id":593,"date":"2006-07-30T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=593"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:58:26","slug":"should-you-promote-an-unpubbed-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/should-you-promote-an-unpubbed-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you promote an unpubbed novel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now there&#8217;s a question . . .<\/p>\n<p>I think the answer is &#8220;depends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Depends on how you do it and what your expectations are.<\/p>\n<p>I stuck my toe in, today, with a little teaser on my bio page. Here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I] am now querying agents for my latest completed book, WHEN LIBBY MET THE FAIRIES AND HER WHOLE LIFE WENT FEY. It&#8217;s about a biologist who&#8217;s trying to start an organic vegetable farm, only one evening as she&#8217;s crossing one of her fields a two-foot tall man steps out of the shadows and greets her by name.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard enough for Libby to believe that little folk exist, let alone that they&#8217;ll help her farm succeed. Then word of her sightings leaks onto the Internet and pretty soon her property is swarming with strangers who want to see the fairies, too . . .<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a romance. I love books with romances :-)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t want to put anything more out right now. For example, there are some plot twists I hope will be fun for readers. I wouldn&#8217;t want to give them away. And how much of a hint is too much? I confess, that&#8217;s a question that makes me nervous.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the matter of my dignity. I am terribly excited about this book. I think it&#8217;s good. Hell, some days I think it&#8217;s very good. But I thought my last novel was very good, too, until I tried to find an agent for it. Come to find out, it wasn&#8217;t nearly the novel I believed it was.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing like real world feedback to open one&#8217;s eyes ;-)<\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t want to overhype WHEN LIBBY even within the confines of my modest little blog, because even here it&#8217;s a long way down from that high horse saddle . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now there&#8217;s a question . . . I think the answer is &#8220;depends.&#8221; Depends on how you do it and what your expectations are. I stuck my toe in, today, with a little teaser on my bio page. Here it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/should-you-promote-an-unpubbed-novel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}