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Encouragement from
a New Friend
A few days ago I received a very unexpected email from a well-known secular author, one whose books I haven't read any of. She had read "The Angel on the Hill" and had some very encouraging things to say about it. I won't share her name or what she said about Angel, but we had a good back-and-forth discussion about the fact that I have never been good at marketing my books and find the whole idea of marketing to be tiresome and ineffective.
She has referred me to someone who has played a large part in her success by helping her books find the most appropriate readers and see if she might be able to help me. We've exchanged several emails so far in a very encouraging wat.
I should've also titled this "Encouragement from My Pastor" when the sermon topic was "Vision," and I couldn't keep from thinking about writing and marketing. If my vision is for my fiction to go beyond blessing and entertaining readers, I need to be purposeful in doing what I can—what God will help me to do—to reach readers who will benefit from my books.
An important first step will be for me to do a better job of keeping this website updated. That is my intention. Now let's see if I can be true to the purpose for my writing.
Back to Doing My Blog—Almost
I quit posting to As I Come Singing a year of so ago because I was just redoing my previous posts without the addition of any new songs. God doesn't give me more than one or two a year, sometimes less. I have several now and hope to record them soon. I won't fail to post if I don't have an audio of the first song yet.
How is My
Work-in-Progress Coming?
Progress on "Wait for Me" is slow, but steadier than in had been before. I've written 24,000 words so far, although several thousand of them are chapters that will come later in the story and will probably need a lot of revising. I'm still not totally sure where my story is going, but I'm starting to think it's going to be literary fiction and/or a fictitious memoir. It's definitely more character-driven than plot-driven. That's something totally brand-new for me, and I'm really interested in how it's going to progress and turn out.
By the way, I've added a subtitle to the front cover.
I hope you enjoy your visit and come again soon.
Best regards,
Roger
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