{"id":5139,"date":"2013-12-20T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2013-12-20T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:34:02","slug":"im-not-good-at-self-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2013\/12\/20\/im-not-good-at-self-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Good at Self Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Christopher Gronlund's Old Man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/omcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/>I&#8217;ve said before that when it comes to self promotion, I&#8217;m not the best.<\/p>\n<p>Want proof?<\/p>\n<p>Over a month ago, I had a novella called <em><a title=\"Christopher Gronlund's Old Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/oldman\/\">Old Man<\/a><\/em> released as an ebook. Now, I <em>did<\/em> write a blog entry about <a title=\"Writing for Different Mediums\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2013\/11\/10\/writing-for-different-mediums\/\">writing the same story in different formats<\/a> shortly before <em>Old Man<\/em> was released. But I never came here and said, &#8220;It&#8217;s official &#8212; <em>Old Man<\/em> is out!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So guess what? It&#8217;s official &#8212; <em>Old Man<\/em> is out! (<a title=\"Christopher Gronlund's Old Man at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B00GRLF3BW\">Amazon link<\/a> \/ <a title=\"Christopher Gronlund's Old Man at Barnes and Noble\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/s\/2940149014064\">Barnes and Noble Nook link<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Old Man<\/em> is about a sixteen-year-old named Phil Johnson who begins acting like an old man in an effort to get to know his dying grandfather. It&#8217;s also about what happens after Gramps dies and Phil goes even more extreme with the old-man act.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, I even made a video about the novella!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"475\" height=\"267\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ctrz2u6TutU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The last thing I&#8217;ll say about <em>Old Man<\/em> is this: after all I&#8217;ve written in my life, this is <em>still<\/em> my favorite thing I&#8217;ve written!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Other Promo Stuff<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>And since I&#8217;m on a promo kick, here&#8217;s some stuff going on with friends I&#8217;ve met through <em>The Juggling Writer<\/em> (well, except that Kupfer guy&#8230;met him at my last job!).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A reminder that Shawn Kupfer&#8217;s latest, <a title=\"Shawn Kupfer's Fear and Anger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fear-Anger-Echo-Shawn-Kupfer-ebook\/dp\/B00FW72810\/\">Fear and Anger<\/a>, is just waiting to have your eyeballs move across all those exciting lines of text! I even <a title=\"Shawn Kupfer Fear and Anger interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2013\/10\/30\/shawn-kupfer-is-full-of-fear-and-anger-an-interview\/\">interviewed Shawn<\/a> when it came out!<\/li>\n<li>The mighty <a title=\"Paul Lamb's website\" href=\"https:\/\/paullamb.wordpress.com\/\">Paul Lamb<\/a> has a <a title=\" When We Were Young and Life Was Full in Us by Paul Lamb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefictioneer.org\/paul-lamb.html\">new story up at The Fictioneer<\/a>. Free reading is good reading, and since Paul is a great writer, this is doubly wonderful!<\/li>\n<li>CMStewart completed another successful run at NaNoWriMo and has a story in <a title=\"Theme-Thology: Invasion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theme-Thology-Invasion-ebook\/dp\/B00FG1DF9Q\">this anthology<\/a>. You can read an <a title=\"My Computer Started a Conversation with Me\" href=\"http:\/\/cmstewartwrite.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/11\/so-my-computer-started-a-conversation-with-me\/\">interview her computer did with her, here<\/a> and find other purchasing links to the anthology there.<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Eckstein has <a title=\"Lisa Eckstein's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaeckstein.com\/2013\/12\/life-after-revision.html\">wrapped up her latest novel<\/a> after running the gauntlet at the <a title=\"Lisa Eckstein's Squaw Valley Workshop blog entry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaeckstein.com\/2013\/07\/wisdom-from-squaw-valley.html\">Squaw Valley Writer&#8217;s Workshop<\/a> gauntlet. She emerged on the other side of the challenge holding the heads of all who opposed her up high while shouting, &#8220;THIS BOOK WILL SOON BE DONE!!!&#8221; (Okay, so maybe <em>that<\/em> didn&#8217;t happen, but it&#8217;s the image that came to mind as I wrote this&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Laura Mills hit her <a title=\"Laura Mills's blog.\" href=\"http:\/\/the-blank-page.blogspot.com\/\">100th blog post<\/a>. Even with all the busy that comes with the first semester of college, I think she&#8217;s blogging even more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>It&#8217;s Almost 2014!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I just wanted to type that: <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s almost 2014!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But it is, and it&#8217;s been a great year, despite some rough moments. The best writing I&#8217;ve ever done is slowly falling from my head, and I plan to be a bit greedy, hole up even more next year, and focus on just a few things.<\/p>\n<p>I hope when I come out on the other side of 2014, that I look like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Depiction of Christopher Gronlund as woodland hermit!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/hermitchristopher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s a good way to end this post!<\/p>\n<p>(Okay, so since this is all about promotion, you should also check out the <a title=\"Men in Gorilla Suits podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meningorillasuits.com\/\">Men in Gorilla Suits podcast<\/a>! Oh yeah, and remember that I write different bloggy stuff at <a title=\"Christopher Gronlund's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\">my main website<\/a>. There, now done for real!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said before that when it comes to self promotion, I&#8217;m not the best. Want proof? Over a month ago, I had a novella called Old Man released as an ebook. Now, I did write a blog entry about writing the same story in different formats shortly before Old Man was released. 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