Rat-a-tat-tat! The Orbit Team September 9, 2010

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The Orbit Team

September 9, 2010

Another great prize has come and gone, and I’d like to congratulate all of the Orbit authors who won or were nominated. It’s great for them because, while being an author is a wonderful job, it can also be discouraging. Unless you’re in the rewards sphere, or manage to work your way up one of the increasingly elusive lists, it’s hard to know if you’re really reaching someone.

This is why social media is rocking. In the Popular Fiction MA at my new university, I teach a course on building author platforms, and we talk a lot about social media. One of the things we raised on the periphery is how rewarding it is to interact with fans of our books.

This weekend, I received lovely letters and messages on Twitter and Facebook. It’s almost impossible for me to express how much these interactions mean to writers like me. I feel very disconnected, sometimes, from my life as a writer. So to see people not just reading my books, but really connecting with the issues in them and really connecting with my characters means the world to me.

But that’s not all I got this weekend. I also got what I think is the ultimate compliment to both Jane, Sharon Tancredi’s incredible art, and Orbit for having the nerve to take such a big risk. I received proof of my first Jane True inspired tattoo from a lovely lady in America. Here is a picture:

And another:

Sounds awesome, doesn’t it! Pretty, but hard core at the same time. I would buy a woman with a tattoo like that a drink. Since posting about this tattoo I have learned that plans for more tattoos are in the works. And it makes me smile.

Will my Jane True books ever win an award? Probably not. Will they make a list? Probably not. But with fans like these, it doesn’t matter. I’m pretty confident they’d support me in a bar fight. And that’s more than enough for me.

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