I know. I know. It’s been a few minutes since we’ve last chatted. I’ve done some new things since then, and those things have taken up a lot of my time.
I know what you’re saying, “It’s not like you were writing a book or something…”
Oh. But, I was. Writing a book, that is.
But even while co-authoring my book, The Church Chronicles of Iris and Locke, I was thinking about new foci and faces for the blog. Many of the blogs you will read bubbled up from my experience writing, editing, publishing, signing and launching a book. It’s been a journey. As a matter of fact, by the end of the month, my co-author and I, Dr. Tame Your Talk, will have finished up a trilogy of tours covering three states! So yeah, it’s been kind of busy.
I gave the book busy-ness a name. Book Thugging–slanging books from my trunk. I’m a book dealer. Really, people who caught on to the trilogy of novellas have actually gobbled the pages down like addicts, word-addicts. They can’t stop reading, and they blame us, the writers, for that. We have become story-traffickers, and we love it, even though we’ve heard rumors of people forgoing nursing home visits, reading an entire 100 pages in their car, and sneaking page peaks from the toilet.
Unlike other kinds of addictions facilitated by pushers, what we’re pushing seems to be helping folks reconnect with the written word (in addition, we’ve received accolades that the book has improved our readers’ memories and reconciled relationships between kinfolk), but I’ve discovered that this life of thugging comes with it’s own challenges.
It’s not been an easy process. Under normal, traditional writing circumstances, the writer just writes. She doesn’t market, publicize, schedule readings, edit, or even sell her own book. She doesn’t keep her twitter page popping or her Facebook fan page flooded with images and clever memes. Under normal circumstances, once the piece is written, a writer’s work is done.
With us, the finished work is just the beginning. I won’t go into all of that, but because you all have been so faithful to the blog, I wanted to offer you a slice of what’s been going on with your blogger(s), not as an excuse, but as an explanation.
Now, what I need you to do is go out there and buy the book. Maybe we can get a live online discussion started right here on the blog! Now wouldn’t that be nice? There are two ways to purchase of course:
Whichever is your pleasure, give it a whirl, and drop in the comments what you think. In between time, I have some lovely blogs waiting for you. And I even have another fabulous guest blogger. Her name is Carmen Patton, and she is no stranger to blogging. She’s a blogger for the Memphis Grizzlies blog, All Heart in Hoop City. Share in her two-part series on contentment.
Hope Lenoir has a wonderful post that will help us bring balance to our lives. She will also be featured in an interview for her new book, Rush.
I will address the flip side of being salt, with a blog entitled “Salty.” Who knows what will come after that? I’ll guess you’ll have to read and see. In the meantime, I hope I’ve given you plenty to whet your appetite for a good story. Additionally, please keep check on your inbox for a wonderful digital mag, for which I’m proud to have written. The name of the magazine is HimPower, and I’ll be featuring the editor-in-chief, Carol Lyles, as well.
Until then, keep reading and I’ll keep writing.
Book Thugging,
DiAnne
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