And his voice became like a brook, as clear and as pure as water
Good morning! Three totally disparate things:
1. I can now announce that my short story "The Face of the Waters" has been accepted for reprint by Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Fiction, edited by Bogi Takács (Lethe Press). Look at that cover! Look at that table of contents! My contribution was originally published in Forget the Sleepless Shores (2018); it was written for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ashlyme who had had a disappointing experience with a narrative of canals and rain. I feel it was also a little influenced by recent exposure to Sapphire & Steel (1979–82), whose second three serials I never seem to have reviewed. I am honored to have it included in this anthology.
2. The Flick Filosopher is reporting trouble with e-mail notification of her posts at Patreon. Since Patreon is trying to track the bug: did everyone here who is a patron of mine (thank you!) and has their account set to receive notifications of my posts get one for this morning's review? [edit] The answers appear to be yes and I appreciate the data. I am paranoid about something going wrong with Patreon.
3. I find this story of flag-burning at an anti-KKK rally really upsetting: "It's like a meat-world version of the Jewish impersonators Yair Rosenberg used to bust." We're going to need a bigger golem.
Once more to the doctor's, dear friends. Last night's concert was fun.
1. I can now announce that my short story "The Face of the Waters" has been accepted for reprint by Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Fiction, edited by Bogi Takács (Lethe Press). Look at that cover! Look at that table of contents! My contribution was originally published in Forget the Sleepless Shores (2018); it was written for
ashlyme who had had a disappointing experience with a narrative of canals and rain. I feel it was also a little influenced by recent exposure to Sapphire & Steel (1979–82), whose second three serials I never seem to have reviewed. I am honored to have it included in this anthology.2. The Flick Filosopher is reporting trouble with e-mail notification of her posts at Patreon. Since Patreon is trying to track the bug: did everyone here who is a patron of mine (thank you!) and has their account set to receive notifications of my posts get one for this morning's review? [edit] The answers appear to be yes and I appreciate the data. I am paranoid about something going wrong with Patreon.
3. I find this story of flag-burning at an anti-KKK rally really upsetting: "It's like a meat-world version of the Jewish impersonators Yair Rosenberg used to bust." We're going to need a bigger golem.
Once more to the doctor's, dear friends. Last night's concert was fun.
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Do you use DW as part of a general/public author platform, or is more a separate space for you? If you consider it a significant piece in your author platform, do you find it works well, and how so?
I ask because I'm hoping to refurbish/reinvent my sadly neglected author outreach this summer, and I love DW, so it would be great to have it as a piece, but DW seems so out of the loop as a platform that I'm a) not sure how that would work and also b) a little anxious about publicizing something that has been my separate fannish space historically, going back to LJ in 2004. Thank you in advance!
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Thank you!
Do you use DW as part of a general/public author platform, or is more a separate space for you? If you consider it a significant piece in your author platform, do you find it works well, and how so?
It's pretty much the only platform I've got. I joined LJ at the end of 2004 partly with the encouragement of former college friends and partly because my first two collections were coming out in 2005 and I figured I should have some kind of author presence on the internet; I continued to use LJ for both social and professional purposes until the great terms-of-service exodus of 2017; after that I transferred entirely to DW, which I had been using as an archive since 2012. I am not on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram etc. I am on Facebook because it's where most of my former college friends migrated when they left LJ, but I dislike it intensely as a platform (the algorithms, the data-scraping, the general product-packaging of people) and post there only for major professional announcements like book publication or award nomination. I have a website which includes links to DW and Patreon and does not itself contain a blog. How well does DW work for me? I know it does not have the market penetration of Twitter or Facebook. Even my rare crossposts always garner more likes on Facebook than comments on DW. I am sure I would have an even higher profile if I could use Twitter. That is not a mode of interaction in which it would be remotely healthy for me to engage, however, so I don't, because I need my mental space more than I need to be a full-time publicist (no space, no writing). I like DW. I like the long-form. I like the communal aspects. And every now and then someone shows up from a friend-of-friendlist and responds favorably, so it's not a zero in terms of self-promotion. Posting here does in fact cause people to read stories and buy books and become patrons and often they tell me so. Feel free to ask further questions if I did not actually answer what you wanted to know.
but DW seems so out of the loop as a platform that I'm a) not sure how that would work and also b) a little anxious about publicizing something that has been my separate fannish space historically, going back to LJ in 2004.
Would you be comfortable setting up an author account and keeping it separate from your fannish account?
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I really hadn't thought of getting a separate author DW. That's a really interesting idea that I will have to give more thought.
Thanks!
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You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.