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Chapter 27: Thank you, Volume One

Once again, Volume One comes through and really nails things. For those of you who don’t know about Volume One–and I assume that’s pretty much every single visitor this site has ever received–Volume One is an arts magazine in Eau Claire, WI. I happened to have submitted an interview with American Movie star Mark Borchardt for one of their earliest of issues, and so I consider myself a bit of a veteran of their ranks.

They probably don’t see me in this way anymore, but that’s OK. They still did a little write-up of the book, and I really appreciate it. You can read it here.

I’ll also do a guest post for Susan Russo Anderson’s newest literary blog, Writing Sleuth, very soon. She’ll have an updated review of the book available as well.

 

Other Odds and Ends

I found another reply to my all-out email blitz in the ol’ SPAM box. The blogger is too overwhelmed to receive another book.

I really want to drop a line to Shawn Edwards of FOX-TV and see if he’ll say something nice about the book. He’s so positive.

I’m adding famous author names in the TAGS section to see if it draws in more visitors. First I will trick them, and then they will be mine. It’s how I got my girlfriend.

Update: Spriteby’s Bokhylle might review the book in the near-future … more fallout from last week’s Blitz.

Chapter 11: I Write Like Stephanie Meyer

Before I get to the good news, let’s get some bad news out of the way: I write like Stephanie Meyer. Yes, I plugged some snippets of my short story collection into “I Write Like” (which you can find here) and they believe, based on their extensive algorithms and scientific breakdowns of sentence structure, that I write like Stephanie Meyer.

This obviously prompts an important question: should I give up? The answer is a resounding no. It also prompts another question: why am I not selling millions of books? That, I have no answer for. Maybe some day.

Dismayed by this result, I plugged more snippets of my short stories into the site and eventually they found a different writer I write like.

Ian Fleming.

 

Success! An Interview!

I sat down for an extensive interview with a Madison book reporter. Great, great stuff. Amazing questions, lots of talk. The article should appear in early January, probably around the same time the review is published in Midwest Book Review. It was a great experience. I told the interviewer that I was compared to Stephanie Meyer and she disagreed, suggesting something along the lines of Chuck Palahniuk.

I’m OK with that.

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