March Authors' Meeting Invite
+ Greetings from Badlands!
📅March Meeting Invite📅
Wednesday, March 25 · 5 PDT, 5 MST, 7 CDT, and 8 EDT.
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xic-oczb-tdv
💀Kristin’s Updates 💀
Bibliography help?!
Would anyone have any idea how to update the bibliography/endnotes so that the in-text superscript is clickable to the citation in the bibliography? Surely a machine could do this for me?
That got lost during the transfer between Google Docs and Word, but visually it’s already fine; each endnote has a number that corresponds to an in-text superscript. But they’re not clickable. Any suggestions on how to fix that automatically?
Artist-in-Residence Update:Greetings from Badlands National Park, where I am the artist in residence for six weeks total! (Until April 15.) I’m thinking of focusing more on the fossils here; there are lots!
Publicity for Carcass:I was recently on The Cowboy State Daily Show podcast. Here it is on YouTube! It’s also on Spotify (Start at 0:46:00 or 0:49:00) and Facebook (Start at 1:06:00.)
🧰Resources🧰
📚 Want to promote your book in non-social media ways?
Promoting Books Without Social Media
🔗 Register https://authorsguild.org/event/promoting-books-without-social-media/ (Authors Guild)
📅 DATE: March 16
💵 COST: Free
💀Kristin’s Notes: I’m skeptical about promoting book-marketing events since most of them are useless and scam-ish, but at least I know the Authors Guild is decent.
👀Reading👀
This very relatable post about how it takes many years of non-writing to get a trad-pubbed book out into the world:
Jennifer Frazer says she sold her book in January 2023, and it’s slated to come out in May 2027. I also sold my book in January 2023, so maybe mine will be out around the same time!
Question: What have you all been doing while you wait for your book to come out?
I could write another book, but I can’t actually publish one until the first is done. (Not even through self-publishing.) I can’t query now under my contract, so I kind of run the risk of writing a whole book without a book deal. (Though, maybe that’s how it would be with a photo book anyway, since that’s how fiction and memoir works.)
So, while I’m prioritizing Carcass above all else, I am working on other projects. My plan is: whatever gets funded next gets priority.
One of my aspiring projects I’m working with the Bureau of Land Management to do bone-hunting tours, bone-finding hikes (BLM rep says that both the word “hunt” and the word “tour” refer, by default, to animal-killing). But who knows if I’ll get all the right permissions and permits before summer—this would be a very seasonal endeavor!
That sounds great! We watched the Netflix documentary, exectuive produced by Steven Spielberg, The Dinoisaurs, on how they got to the Badlands. Great, worthwhile. Can you get a connection with that for your Finding Excursions?
Here's an account of Book Marketing Gone Wrong, https://janefriedman.com/i-hired-a-book-publicist-for-1800-heres-what-went-wrong/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQVWL1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEerdVNH12XmpPPEyzrg7fGZWwJmsXD5IHZnIyXP8QtVJLlv0X_xWORvLlmB3Y_aem_Sa83fKJHg_2Z4Ko2HpLd0A
Oddly, the article it links to about academic publishers, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist, from 2011, more than14 years ago, twice mentions, not in a complimentary way, Robert Maxwell, deceased father of Ghislane Maxwell of recent notoriety. Old Ghosts.
I'm wary of academic publishers, because the two books published about elephant seals by the Grand Old Man of the subject, highly respected and honored, published with Cambridge University Press and they are not excellent in quality. https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Seals-Pushing-Limits-Land/dp/1316511545 The photos are collected in a section, the color is poor, the binding is, well, cheap. I like my chicken books way better, sturdy, strong, and beautiful colors. Every page designed artistically. His books barely have an index.
And the prices: Amazon has discounted one of his books to $77.95 (Kindle $84.95, go figure) and the other $90 from the publisher, even Amazon isn't offering it. Good thing he gave them, and lots of his papers, to me.
I don't have any suggestions about the superscript links, but someone must know how to do this.
I look forward to hearing about Badlands! I'll be at SEJ in Chicago April 15-18. https://www.sej2026.org/ I was hoping I could talk about having an agent or a publisher for my book, but maybe I'll find one there.