Anybody have a good connection there? I’d like to attend, but I need some Official Sponsoring Type Group to host a signing or a talk … and apparently the large, BuyBlue-approved bookselling chain with which my new publisher works (at the Festival, I mean) isn’t interested … lord, this stuff makes me tired…
… the good thing about my situation is that the book is only a by-product of the work — whether it does well or completely tanks, I still have the weekly cartoon, the work itself … I can’t imagine what it would be like to work on a novel for several years and then go through this crap, trying desperately to attract a little notice in the short window of opportunity that you’ve got immediately after publication, before everyone loses interest entirely …