Ann Somerville’s Journal

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I finally got sick of Joomla’s useless non-automatic upgrading procedure, and the overengineered backend, so I’ve moved the site to Wordpress. What this means for you guys is that you may occasionally run into broken links. Also if you have any pages other than the stories bookmarked, you will need to change your URLs, and if you are following the feed, the URL will have changed.

This only affects my main website, not the blog.

Please let me know if you find a page which is broken, or links on the site which don’t work. I would be happy to reward such helpfulness with free books

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On the bad:

• So called sympathisers over child abuse blatantly agreeing that victims only complained about Michael Jackson for money, and that those who complain about her insensitive statements are just waiting for a chance to be offended. And this after apologising for causing hurt to abuse victims when at least two people told her she was causing real pain. Hypocrisy leaves a really sour taste in the mouth.
• So does a wisdom tooth extraction (ick). But you know, better than the above.
• Knowing a good friend is really hurting because people are fucking inconsiderate dickheads and will spout off about something they know bugger all about, just to make themselves look clever.

On the good:

• Seeing a fabulous visiting exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on American Impressionism. I adored many of the paintings, and also enjoyed chatting to the other patrons, sharing our pleasure. A really nice experience.
• Playing with an iPod Touch and the soon to be mine 13′ Macbook Pro. Come to momma, babies
• Meeting with Kessbird and talking books and writing
• Eating great food (which did smell like wee, until I ate it)
• Watching Kessbird orgasming over the wonderful lamb I decided against (wait, maybe that belongs in the bad section )
• Eating Turkish Delight cheesecake with a chocolate biscuit base (a recipe here). Imagine Johnny Depp licking your nipples and whispering in Don Juan de Marco’s voice. This cake is better than that.
• Waking up to a nice review of Many Roads Home:
  “Watching Yveni grow emotionally was probably the best part of the story for me. The romance was touching and at times left me on the edge of my seat even more than the action did. Ann Somerville proves to be a wonderful storyteller with Many Roads Home, one that puts plot, characterization, and setting together seamlessly.”

So, how are you all doing?

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Oh internets! You were gone for only a day and a half but how I missed you!

Anyway…Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware has a post up about IndieReader, and once again Amy Edelman’s apologists supporters are trying obscure real concerns behind abuse, invective and irrelevance. I don’t know who Zoe Winters and Henry Baum think they are going convince by abusing anyone who criticises this startup business or the owner’s behaviour, but they sure don’t convince me.

I know you don’t want to miss a single review over there, so read this post for more details

I have a definite, definite publication month for Remastering Jerna - August 2009. Yay! And PD Publishing are actively setting up ebooks, so while the print version will come out ahead of the ebook, there will be an ebook for those of you who prefer that format.

Now, the other big news is that I’ve accepted an offer from Lethe Press to republish Somatesthesia (so sorry, guys, if you didn’t buy it from Lulu, you’ll have to wait until Lethe reissue it in a couple of months in print and eformats.) As a lot of you know, seeking pro publication wasn’t in my plans for this year, but when you get an offer from a great small publisher like Lethe, not to mention an amazing author like Steve Berman, you’d have to be a dummy to turn it down. And I ain’t no dummy

So look for both books later in the year! Woo hoo!

It involves duct tape, rubber tubing, and Richard Dean Anderson—

Ooops, did I just say that in my outdoors voice?

Links are upon us, and man, there are a lot of them. I shall endeavour to preach the sermon… er… educate… er…entertain? by theme. Kinda. Well, as much as I usually do.

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There’s been about 120 downloads of the Preview and first story in the Different Senses anthology, and some of you even went out and bought the thing. So did you think of it? I’m curious since this is a bit of a departure for me, with some themes I might not have carried off.

Anyone? I mean, anyone who didn’t beta it?

I’ve made a post over at Uniquely Pleasurable asking for recommendations for stories/books which can be suggested to readers who are open-minded but yet wary of the m/m genre. Comments closed here because I want the comments over there!

All welcome – pass the link around. I want to make a list to post on UP as a permanent starting point for people to share.

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I passed this info on in IM to a fellow m/m author last night, and I figure I may as well record it for the benefit of anyone else with the same question. I should point out that this is very much promotion 101, and applies mainly to ebooks. If you have a print book, then I know almost nothing about promoting them, except all this stuff is useful for that, as a minimum.

You have a new m/m book, new author. How can you promote it cheaply?

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