Hi all!
First of all, sorry I’m late with this one. An extreme mixture of business and laziness caused me to put this off for not one, but two days. I really try to get these up regularly, but better late than never, right?
Ideas for this blog post came at me like pretty much everything in my life right now: in crazy, disconnected multitudes. Topic after topic presented itself to me, but not one excited or motivated me enough to sit down and write a whole post on it. NaNoWriMo? That was last week, and besides a 7k word deficit there isn’t much to report. My recent adventures? As awesome as it was to learn how and attempt to trap a live hawk, I’m not sure how I could justify relaying that story in an author blog. Plus, I might want to save it for a scene in a future novel. Learning Dutch? I’m saving that one for when I’m in Holland in December/January.
While I was mulling all of these possibilities over, I saw that I had a new comment on one of my blog posts. Turns out, one of my readers had recently come across my post on advice for preparing for a signing and wanted to share it with friends of hers, who are authors themselves. That got me thinking: what kind of posts are most valuable to you? I have plenty of fun coming up with a new subject to mull over each week. I love sharing everything that’s been going on with those of you that want to know. But what kind of posts do you enjoy the most?
I want to hear if you like news, advice, musings, or other kinds of posts the best. What most motivates you to join in the discussion? What do you look for out of author blogs?
I’ve also lately been toying with a new idea. What if I do some blog posts that are kind of behind-the-scenes for Untold? I already occasionally do this on my author page with little bits of trivia, but I’m starting to think it might be fun to do more extended posts. Talk a bit about the process, maybe some secret facts about the characters, that kind of thing? What do you think?
Sound off in the comments, and I’ll get right to work crafting next week’s post.
— Amy
Our hawk bait. His name is Inspector Nibs.