{"id":1646,"date":"2021-08-26T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:15:25","slug":"i-am-a-published-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/26\/i-am-a-published-author\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a *published* author!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;I mean, yes, okay, I was a published author before, with <em>Creampuffs<\/em>, and all my various short stories, but there is something very different between self-publishing and having <em>someone else decide your book is worth the effort<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In case you didn&#8217;t know, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brain-lag.com\/books\/blackout-odyssey.php\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.brain-lag.com\/books\/blackout-odyssey.php\" target=\"_blank\">Brain Lag<\/a> publisher Catherine decided that <em>Blackout Odyssey<\/em> was indeed worth the effort, and BOO finally launched August 13, 2021!! It&#8217;s real! It happened!!! For all of those keeping track, I started querying BOO in January of 2019; I sent out 128 queries before Catherine sent me a &#8220;yes&#8221; in September 2020. And now it&#8217;s here! IT&#8217;S A REAL BOOK BEHELD BY SEVERAL REAL PEOPLE!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(tossing hair) Oh Victoria Feistner? Yeah no I know them, we hang out sometimes and get boba and look at dogs in a park, it&#39;s whatever.<br><br>EXCEPT ACTUALLY I AM VERY EXCITED HOLY SHIT YESSSSSSSS YESYESYESYESSSSSSS AHHHHHHH <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hxMHztQBKd\">pic.twitter.com\/hxMHztQBKd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Laura DeHaan (@WritInRooster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WritInRooster\/status\/1428482632443219976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/seelight\/status\/1430318341210755077\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well okay there were more people than that who bought copies but they don&#8217;t all have twitter. YOU GET THE GIST I THINK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 14th, 2021 was not only the 18th anniversary of the blackout, but my official launch party. Due to the seemingly never-ending plague, we elected fairly early on to have an online launch party. Quite a few people asked me if that was a bit disappointing. Maybe a little; I couldn&#8217;t see the chat comments (Catherine read some of them out but that&#8217;s not the same) and it&#8217;s hard to justify a buying a spread of snacks when everyone is online. BUT Lil and Marc were my tech support\/peanut gallery and so after the online portion wrapped, we had warm beer (to toast the blackout!) and cupcakes (to toast my success!!) and that made it very much like a Real Party, albeit small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The better news about the launch party being online is that YOU CAN STILL WATCH IT! It&#8217;s currently <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1118474104\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1118474104\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitch<\/a>.  It features an interview (<em>of me, how crazy is that)<\/em>, some q &amp; a where people share their blackout memories, my reading from the book (I did fairly well, if I do say so myself, and totes fooled everyone into thinking I wasn&#8217;t extremely nervous: success!) and I believe a guest appearance by my cat Emmett, who despite knowing better, leapt onto the chest of drawers I was using as my background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If that&#8217;s not a summation of 2020-21 I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to a bit of a hiccup in the printerly sphere of getting a book published, <em>I<\/em> have not received my copies, and do not know what the book feels like, to hold. (My author [!] copies [!!] should be arriving sometime in September. Luckily people who pre-ordered are already receiving theirs.) But I definitely plan on making a little unboxing video, and I will publish that here, when I do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I WROTE A BOOK AND THEN I SOLD THAT BOOK TO A PUBLISHER AND NOW IT&#8217;S A REAL BOOK YOU GUYS!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT QUERIES to find that one <em>yes!<\/em>, and if I can sum up my one piece of advice to other writers out there, it is this:<br><br>NEVER GIVE UP<br>NEVER SURRENDER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a home for every story, even weirdo genderbent retellings of The Odyssey set in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;what a trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I HAD A LAUNCH PARTY!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,179,9],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-writing","tag-blackout-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}