- Joined
- Dec 19, 2006
- Messages
- 311
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- Location
- New England
- Website
- maureenmccarrie.blogspot.com
This past week while stuck in bed I registered the domain for my pen name, did the graphics and webwork, and got http://www.maureenmccarrie.com up and running. Included are blurbs and mock-covers for my current WIP, a Trilogy, and some cutesy stuff about the world I built for my characters.
This morning I was chatting on conference call with an Important Person in Publishing about a non-romance project in which I have been asked to participate. (A Harry Potter thing is happening, though it will probably come out 2 years AFTER book 7, which is due out this summer all things being ideal.)
ANYWAY...
She was saying that exerpts on uncontracted work are not a bad idea. She advised me to pull something juicy from my current WIP and put it up on my sparkly spangly new website as a teaser. "You'd be surprised," she said, "how quickly it may get attention."
Her argument was that while I have synopses up an exerpt/teaser shows the quality of my writing. It's not so much about the story-- the blurbs show that. It's more about giving readers and potential publishers a sneak peak at what I can do.
The idea makes me nervous. While I'm unsigned I feel like that leaves my work a bit vulnerable. Also, I would have sort of assumed that publishers would not want potential material out there for the world to look at before they've signed, sealed, and charged for it. That probably comes from being a chiefly magazine-writer... newspapers and magazines don't like material to be seen before publication date.
Thoughts?
This morning I was chatting on conference call with an Important Person in Publishing about a non-romance project in which I have been asked to participate. (A Harry Potter thing is happening, though it will probably come out 2 years AFTER book 7, which is due out this summer all things being ideal.)
ANYWAY...
She was saying that exerpts on uncontracted work are not a bad idea. She advised me to pull something juicy from my current WIP and put it up on my sparkly spangly new website as a teaser. "You'd be surprised," she said, "how quickly it may get attention."
Her argument was that while I have synopses up an exerpt/teaser shows the quality of my writing. It's not so much about the story-- the blurbs show that. It's more about giving readers and potential publishers a sneak peak at what I can do.
The idea makes me nervous. While I'm unsigned I feel like that leaves my work a bit vulnerable. Also, I would have sort of assumed that publishers would not want potential material out there for the world to look at before they've signed, sealed, and charged for it. That probably comes from being a chiefly magazine-writer... newspapers and magazines don't like material to be seen before publication date.
Thoughts?