Mar. 4th, 2004

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Whoo hoo! Some of my friends are pulling together a houseparty to help me raise money for travel so that I can take advantage of the momentum generated by the release of Venus of Chalk.

That's amazing in SO many ways! Concrete kindness backed up with work and material support. The relief of acknowledging the fact that I, along with so many other writers, end up in this bind where we want to get out there and do everything we can to get behind the work we care enormously about and have spent years creating (for this book, for me, something like ten years), but we are often paid nothing or next to nothing for our work, so can't afford the expense of doing something like showing up at the huge gathering of the publishing industry in Chicago, where the award ceremony for the lammies happens and which is an important part of becoming an acknowledged part of the world of publishing in so many ways. Thanks to the [livejournal.com profile] hardpressed community for helping me see that I need to try to get to BookExpoAmerica. And small presses, great as they are -- and Firebrand is being wonderful and working hard to get me where I need to be -- often just can't afford to support a book tour in the way that bigger presses can.

I'll write more about the travel in another post -- the places I am or might go are looking really exciting -- but it's the way my friends can clearly see how hard this is and are stepping up to try to make it possible for me to get the books more out there into the world -- oh, it's truly an amazing thing.

Now, if I could just figure out a way to afford the dentist -- nirvana!

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