Tuesday, August 14, 2012

What Do You Want to Know?

I'm about to update my website (long overdue, I know) and actually send out a newsletter to people who said they wanted to know about what was going on with my books. My question is . . . what do people want to know?

Just to be clear, I'm going to keep this book-focused. I'm not going to send out recipes or household organizing tips, not that I have any worth sharing, but still . . .

I have a couple things I know I want to put out there.

1) I have a short story up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble for less than buck, but I am going to offer it as a free PDF download for my newsletter subscribers.

2) Don't Kill the Messenger is available in mass market paperback and Dead on Delivery will be available in that format in November.

3) Dead Letter Day, the third Messenger book, is due out in March of 2013 and I might have a cover to show everyone by the end of the week.

What else do people want to know? I've had a couple of foreign sales recently. That was nice news to me, but does anyone else care? I don't have the covers yet. Should I wait and talk about those when I have something to actually show? Or should I mention it now?

My life is basically an open book. I'll tell anyone about anything. Just tell me what it is people will be interested in hearing about.

6 comments:

Tez Miller said...

Being in Australia, I care about UK/Australian/Commonwealth foreign rights, so if you've sold them, let me know! ;-)

Thanks for making PAYBACK FOR A POST-MORTEM free to your newsletter subscribers (soon). Hoping for a PDF version :-)

Stephanie Doyle said...

Eileen I only want to know about how amazing your Paris trip was...

Not for the newsletter or anything... just because :)

Maureen McGowan said...

I've been thinking about the newsletter thing and pondering similar questions. What the heck do people want to know? But your list looks like a good one.

And congrats on the foreign rights deals! And I can't wait to see your new cover!!!

Eileen said...

I feel like it's just a start. I was pleased about the foreign sales, but really, does it matter to anyone but me?

Steph, Paris was magnifique. I got to see so many things that I've been reading about for years and years. It was so amazing. When I came around the corner in the Louvre and saw the Winged Victory, I cried. The food was amazing. The Parisians were actually very nice and helpful. We had a blast.

mk said...

The biggies I want to know are what books are coming up and their release dates, and what you are currently working on. I keep a running draft email in my email account where I track what books are coming out when. I update it pretty much every day. So knowing the name and release date of books as soon as you know them would be totally awesome.
And thank you for asking what your readers want- that's really nice!

Molly O'Keefe said...

WHAT!!! All these things are going on!!! I had no no no idea! So yes, those things

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