Archive for September, 2008

Squee again!

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

The good news keeps on coming!  I’m so excited that Beverley Kendall (website here to be created, soon, I’m sure) has just sold her first two books to Kensington.  She will be right there with me in a Fall of 2009 release.

Yay, Bev!

Those of you who know Bev know that she’s nice, sweet, and an extremely hard worker.  Those of you who’ve read her writing know that her book (which I think will be called “A Lady’s Compromise”) is going to be truly awesome.  I can’t wait to buy it.

It’s great to know that Bev is the latest–but not the last–of the FanLitters to publish her books.  The real question is . . . . who’s next?

Politics and the Blogging Author

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

It is the political season, and in some sense, it feels very strange to let that time go by without comment on this blog.  That is because–I have to admit it–I am a politics junky.  I like keeping abreast with what’s happening (although I don’t have a TV–it’s all newspapers and online youtube clips, which these days encompasses everything).  I think about policy.  I care about the result of this election.

It somehow, though, seems almost . . . wrong . . . to blog about it as an author.

Why?  It’s what a friend of mine calls “jurisdictional boundaries”–big words that basically mean, if I am wearing my Author Hat, I shouldn’t surprise you all by putting on a big Politics Hat.  You didn’t ask for it.  You don’t care what I think.  If you want politics, you’ll open your OpEd page.  At best, you want to read my books–I hope you want to read my books.  So as an author, politics are not my bailiwick.

Likewise, you shouldn’t care whether your doctor votes Democrat or Republican, as long as she’s a good doctor.  You shouldn’t care if your doctor supports raising the social security age, nor should you switch physicians because you discover that she just doesn’t get what all the fuss is about Harry Potter.  None of that matters to the fine art of doctoring.

But there are small pieces of overlap.  For instance, I would want to know what my doctor thought about the quality of local water.  And, truthfully, no matter how little a writer says about politics, her books inevitably betray at least some of the things that are nearest and dearest to her heart.  So do you disclose it?  Do you admit that it’s been done that way on purpose?  It’s never intended as a lecture, but when an author chooses a “happily ever after,” the way she makes her characters happy often shows what she thinks people need.

Likewise, while I never plan to make this blog political, and especially not overtly so, is it horrible to think about becoming a supporter of my favored person on Facebook?

How much is too much?  I’d love to hear thoughts on this.


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