I’m in that time right before my book comes out in e-print. I should be doing every thing to promote “Shaking off the Dust”, and in small ways I am. My day job is a nurse educator, and it doesn’t require PR. However, new authors need as much publicity as they can get.
I want to believe that I wrote a novel so fast paced and interesting that it will find an audience based solely on the story. Perhaps, if I were being published by one of the massive publishing houses, who were spending many thousands of dollars to promote the book and have it placed at the check out in every Borders, Books-a-Million and Barnes and Nobles in the united states my chances of having a ground swell of readers would be better.
My dream is that it is such a different take on life and death, as we know it, that the reader will be drawn into the lives of these characters. I’d love to have a best seller–big surprise, huh?– So I want to start introducing you to my novel. There are some excerpts at Samhain Publishing, here’s the link
http://samhainpublishing.com/coming/shaking-off-the-dust
In the end, it’s all about the story, so let me tell you a little about my herione.
What I loved about writing this story was that although there are some very serious themes involved- a terrorist plane bombing for one—Hannah’s voice is full of self depreciating humor. She recovered from a near death car accident and is living with the after effects. Although, it is the same old routine, her life works and she functions well in how she defines it. When she’s literally thrown to the ground by fate and begins her odd alliance with the dead neurosurgeon, Tom Mecurio and his best friend, Takeshi Shimodo, her life strays far from normal. She just wants to get it done and return to her real life, that’s the nurse in her. Do your job and be quick about it because someone’s life my hang in the balance.
Working in an ER is part of my professional life, I know first hand the kind of jaded wit that doctors and nurses use and the teasing that keeps the weariness of life smacking you up side the head on a regular basis at bay. Some people think it’s black humor, but it’s not. It’s the one thing that can keep you sane. So you look for what is absurd and find a way to express that with an amusing twist. You are never more alive than when you are laughing. She’s a cry baby at heart, the humor is a brave front. Although, I think she is genuinely funny.
Come on back soon. Next blog is about Tom, the arrogant ghost.
