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This is a topic I’ve been meaning to post about since last May.  (Not sure why it has taken so long for me to do so, but the most likely culprit is my general fecklessness when it comes to keeping the blog up to date.  *cough*)

Self-promotion is an important part of an author’s job.  (And it’s no secret this is the thing I dislike the most about writing.)  Which isn’t necessarily a good or bad thing, but just a reality of the publishing landscape.  But I’ve come to realize that we writers aren’t the only folks who struggle with self-promotion. 

Maybe it’s endemic to all creative endeavors.

There are worlds, somewhere within this infinite multiverse, where genre television doesn’t get consigned to the Friday night death slot.  Worlds where the most enjoyable shows don’t automatically receive critical acclaim and deadly low ratings.  Worlds where promising and inventive genre television shows are allowed to find their legs and build an audience, rather than finding their fates determined by three episodes aired on two different nights of the week.

Those worlds are not this one.  But, oh, if only they were.

After Hours, the ur-bar anthology edited by the intrepid Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier, is making its way into the real world!  I recieved my author’s copy in the mail from the book packager this weekend, and I also received a copy from Josh at Boskone. 

And I just received another copy in the mail from Barnes and Noble this evening.

would have to be sitting in the lobby with Karen Anderson while Jo Walton recited GK Chesterton’s The Rolling English Road to the pair of us.