Sep 13, 2016
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New Kaede Akamatsu Blog: Feel free to follow! A better promo will come much later!
Ya’ll ready for this...
Because tonight at midnight (because I’m epically impatient) my Marvel Big Bang fic goes LIVE!
That’s right my lovelies! On a Wing and a Prayer will FINALLY be in your faces and out there for you to read! The journey will have FINALLY come to its end! And what more could you ask for than a WWII era, fighter pilots, Phlint fic, than one that includes ART WORK! That’s right friends! There will be art work linked to it as well! Two lovely artists have given their time, energy, and imaginations to create what will no doubt be fantastic art work to go along with them (I haven’t seen any of it yet, I wanted to be surprised too.)
So if you’ve got nothing better to do tonight, or tomorrow for that matter, stay up until midnight (Central Standard Time) when the fic goes live and be one of the firsts to read it!
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Self-promote in my ask!!
From 1 PM to 2 PM only! You don't have to do anything, just self-promo in my ask! I'm feeling really nice today!
Vanity
“Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
― Ann Landers
(substitute mother for dog, lover for dog, best friend for dog, etc.)
So this is the last announcement of publication, award, acceptance, accolade, etc. here. I've been feeling like a blowhard. It all came about from the lovely list, compiled by Roxane Gay, on The Rumpus of writers of color. If you have not viewed it yet, do. I have. I downloaded it. I saved it. I plan to read at least one thing by everyone on that list (and I have read some stuff from many on that list). There are well known names, and there are up-and-coming names.
I'm on the list. I'm very happy to be on that list. Proud! I consider it one of the biggest achievements I've ever had as a writer. But announcing it on various social networks, I started to feel like a braggart. In real life--and this is real life, too, this blog, but it's not physical so you can't hear my modesty and I hate using visual cues for emphasis (it makes for lazy writing)--I believe I'm very modest. But maybe, I just don't know that I'm vain. It could be that I'm a vain writer.
Maybe, though, it's what I call it: promotion. I am not well known. I have a few stories and fewer poems published, but no book. I feel, to get my name out there, I need to shout whenever I get some notice. But now I'm thinking that I probably shouldn't do that.
I still need to promote myself, though. Somehow. I have to think about how.
This is how writers should act on GalleyCat.