Deeanne Gist - www.deeannegist.com - Inspirational Romance Author

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

I thought we'd do a DVD/Menu kinda thing. You know how after you watch the feature presentation on your DVD, you can then go to a menu and click on all kinds of "behind the scenes" options? Well, I thought we'd do that with our "Journey to Publication" series.

We spent 11 days on our journey from conception of an idea to published novel. But many of you had questions about what was going on behind the scenes. So, how 'bout we put together a menu of sorts? I went back through our comments to see what some of your questions were and tried to group them according to topic. We could then address them one at a time. How does that sound?

Here are the ones I have so far. If you have more, put them in the comments section and I'll add them to our list. Okay, here we go:

Tell me what you want to do first and we'll go from there. Meanwhile, I wanted to give you a quick heads-up. For the next three days I'll be doing a "virtual" book tour. The way that works is about 20 - 30 bloggers from all over the continent will be mentioning Bride and our blog to their readers. So, we will have an influx of visitors over the next several days. Let's be sure to give them a big ol' howdy and make them feel right at home. If you're visiting, be sure to introduce yourself and tell us whose blog you're a comin' from.

Some of the folks participating in this virtual book tour will be posting interviews between me and them. I will be posting those in the "Press Room" of my website under the "Interviews" sub-heading. If you get a chance, check those out and then we can make it a kind of progressive dinner without the dinner!

posted by Deeanne at 11:47 AM

6 Comments:

margaret said...: It's fun to read the interviews and get the behind-the-scenes picture. I'm very glad it all came together, because I thoroughly enjoyed reading Bride.

Once the thunderstorm out there calms down, I'm off to the store to buy Bride for a friend. She can't have my copy. :)

Margaret
TS said...: Dee,

You really have the total package. An excellent writer, and you do this publicity part of the writing extraordinarily well.
Deeanne said...: Margaret: Be sure to send your friend on by. I'd love to meet her. And, thanks, TS.
Barb said...: I'd luv to hear about the family stuff first, since you've covered some of the trail-to-publication already. The mystery non-reader husband, the writing amidst multiple kids, etc etc. Then go back to the professional process. I see God all over it already, so I'm not sure how much you have to explain there, but you know the whole story!
upwords said...: Good to be here. I came over from Dee at Christian Fiction.
Mary Griffith
Deeanne said...: Welcome, Mary! We are glad you are here. I love Dee's site. For those of you who want to visit Dee (not me, a different Dee), her blog addy is http://christianfiction.blogspot.com/