I haven’t gone to any sci-fi/fantasy conventions since I started writing this blog, but with one coming up soon, it seemed appropriate to have a Dragon Lady t-shirt made up to wear to them. So here’s what it looks like:
Front: THAT walking stick
Back: The story identified
Sillyverse 
I love the shirt! Great advertising gimmick for the convention. It should get people asking questions of you.
Glad you like it! And to answer those questions, I’ve got a business card done up with the ink drawing of the walking stick head on the front, and the story’s title and URL on the back. We’ll see how many I hand out.
Wishing all goes well. You deserve it.
Writers sessions galore!
And stuck a toe in to see what self-publishing would be like, by talking to our local independent bookstore, which does custom printing and will stick the book in their catalog.
is there a keyboard shortcut for “fingers crossed”?
There used to be . . . but it jammed the typewriters, and had to be removed in 1897.
I had that typewriter! Cut my teeth on it.
(OK, I tried three different follow-up jokes. None of them was any good. I’m not going to top your line. 🙂 )
You just topped it. 🙂
Oh, the unexpected surprise when talking to the bookstore? I hadn’t thought of “Dragon Lady” as very long, because it takes up only 132 pages in its original format. I used the bookstore’s formatting guidelines to convert the text to a format suitable for a trade paperback. The result? “Dragon Lady” expanded to 342 pages!
Respectable size. Almost eligible for the ‘door-stopper award’. What’s the word count?
Approx. 73,000 words. My writing seems to be getting shorter; my first novel-length story was 124,000, the next 84,000.
If you’re looking at POD isn’t that an advantage? But how d’you do it? I start with a first draft of 100k, only to increase it by 30% with every supposedly reducing edit! [See how neatly I’ve avoided the comment of size irrevelence!]
(Answered by e-mail about to be written.)
Great idea, I hope it is a huge success.
Thank you. I’ll be sure to report back.