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therohero replied to your post: Hey guys, hopefully a lot of you have ...
This is so not the place to say this, but I just now noticed your icon is not, in fact, a chocolate bar. Wow.
Hehe! Of course it isn't a chocolate bar, it's one of Daniel's sketch books!
Hey guys, hopefully a lot of you have read Platonic by now and hopefully, fingers crossed, you enjoyed it as much I enjoyed coming up with the story and writing it out. If that's the case it really would mean the world to me if you could go on over to GoodReads and give it a rating out of five? Maybe even leave a little review? Every little bit of feedback helps me sell more and try to make this thing a success!
So I have totally dropped the ball on the whole 'book' thing and I have a lot of feelings about it that will eventually all come out. There's a really big (admirable, worthwhile, smart) push on tumblr for people to get up off their asses and do things, to never miss an opportunity, and I'm slowly admitting that this mentality doesn't work for me at all.
When the opportunity to write 'Platonic' into a novel presented itself to me, I rationalised that I couldn't say 'No' without regretting it because I figured that it was a 'once in a lifetime chance' and that there was nothing to lose. Turns out, I actually regret saying yes and that, it turns out I did have stuff to lose. Trying to write a novel to my own standards and to the (at times different) standards of the publishers in a few short months was a big ask. Doing it in the same six months that I needed to finish my PhD, for me, turned out to be impossible without serious detriment to my own health and relationships. I took on too much, I said yes to too many things, I see that now and I hope next time I'll be able to say 'no' when I need to.
It's done now. I have a novel and I have a submitted PhD. I regret saying yes to so much, I need to learn how to say no, but it's done. I have a novel and a PhD and it would be stupid not to be proud of both. I am. But I'm beginning to see that I could have been happier saying 'yes' less.
Anyhow. I'm here now, with a whole lot more time, with a holiday, with weekends when I get back, with an intimidating job search ahead of me. I can't quite decide whether it would be easier to forget the book ever happened and move on or to hold it up and recognise that pretending it never happened won't retroactively make the last six months easier. But I'm thinking about it again. The book, my life, Patrick—I'll never want to forget Patrick—sitting here in the middle of nowhere, Scotland, I finally feel like I can.
Enter to win one of 5 free copies of Platonic!!
I just finished reading Platonic and I feel like I need to write down my thoughts on it.
If I’m being honest, I have to admit that Platonic was one of the IP novels I was less interested in reading, although I can’t explain why exactly. I can, however, tell you that I was wrong in thinking I wouldn’t like it and that I am glad I did take the time to read it.
As soon as I started reading, I couldn’t put the book away. I think part of that has to do with me identifying on some level with Mark, who is a romantic soul and has an undying belief in true love, but at the beginning of the story feels like he threw his chance away by fucking up his relationship with Daniel and is afraid he might not find love like that again. But my love for this book stems from more than just my sympathy for this one character. Mark and Daniel’s story is romantic, funny and heartbreaking, it is well-written, and it ends in a way that feels very natural to me, leaving off on a happy note and making me smile to myself as I closed the book.
I don’t have a way with words like Kate Paddington does, and probably won’t succeed in conveying my thoughts about this book as well as I’d want to, but suffice it to say that I am very happy that Platonic is the first (but definitely not the last) IP novel I’ve read. Congratulations to Kate on this beautiful first novel.
I’m so excited to start these! :) Happy launch day Interlude Press! Congratulations to all the authors.
I am kinda angry with you currently, not in a bad way. But like I am only on page 64 of Platonic and I am crying. Why did you make me care about those boys to the point where I had to stop reading so that I could cry. I just want to hug them both and tell them it gets better. Also, I am loving the book so far and I would like to order my own personal Patrick.
My heart sank with that first line because I honestly thought I'd done something monstrous. But now I'm just grinning because that's kind of the whole point and so I am very happy you feel so much for them. That I could write original characters and make someone cry! Wonderful and thank you so much for telling me.
Also you'll be glad to hear that I am currently in talks with IP for licensing right to generate and sell personal Patricks. ;-)
Friendly reminder that if you haven't reviewed Platonic on GoodReads, Amazon or elsewhere, now would be a fantastic time to do it! And I would, of course, love you forever!
Look what arrived as I’m about to go to work. Can I call in sick and read instead?
a couple days late but my raffle prize is here!
I AM SO EXCITED TO READ IT! 😍
I believe it is time for watermelon and vodka cocktails with some Platonic reading
I reaaally liked the Klaine fic, and I was super curious about the novel version, so now don’t expect anything from me before I finish it. later, gator.
I am reluctant to go to sleep because Platonic is back in the Top 100 Gay and Lesbian Erotica books on Amazon (was 84, now slipped back to 92) and I am stuck just sitting here marvelling at that and its reality. I don’t want to go to bed and wake back up to it not being there which is such a strange thing to think. But also it is after midnight and I was up at 6 this morning and will be up at 6 tomorrow as well.
*SAVORS*
The rankings finally updated... 1 am... And now it is at 75... I have the dumbest grin on my face in the history of dumb grins. Honest to god.
I am reluctant to go to sleep because Platonic is back in the Top 100 Gay and Lesbian Erotica books on Amazon (was 84, now slipped back to 92) and I am stuck just sitting here marvelling at that and its reality. I don't want to go to bed and wake back up to it not being there which is such a strange thing to think. But also it is after midnight and I was up at 6 this morning and will be up at 6 tomorrow as well.
*SAVORS*
Blog Post Number Six (and yes more chances for a free book!) was at the well named We Love Kink. Come check it out, there's another excerpt, a review, as well as some insight into my writing process!
Blog Post Number 5 is a super interesting and quirky one! I was asked to list ten books that influenced me in my writing and my life and I, of course, started with:
Matilda by Roald Dahl because it taught me that a happy beginning makes a good ending.
And on it goes. Come check it out, leave a comment, and enter the giveaway for your chance at a free copy of the book!
Super excited for some new reading! And now I know what I’ll be doing tonight….
