Interview on Muse Hack
I was delighted to be interviewed recently on Muse Hack, which with its concentration on the less trodden paths of the genre world felt like a good fit for me. Here I am trying to explain what the heck it is I write again
http://www.musehack.com/blog/2014/11/interview-writer-alex-beecroft.html
Did that make any sense to you?
November 5th, 2014 in
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It was great having you Alex! I loved seeing your unique insights!
Great interview, Alex, and with you defining your own attitudes towards writing, I can see more clearly why I love your work. I want to be surprised and challenged and don’t care about the rules of genre; just give me interesting, quality stories. (Which you do so well!) Being a fan of historicals, I love the ones you’ve written, but it is how you tell stories that keeps me buying your books, historical or not.
Thanks Steven! And thanks again for having me. You do a great service to the geeky community 🙂
Thanks Carolyn! I feel as if I should hug you tight. As a reader who actually likes my weirdness, you are unique and worth more than diamonds. As you say, it’s all about thinking and discovering things you haven’t thought before, and hopefully having fun in the process. ((Hugs))
Nice, tight hugs are my favorite, so I would absolutely share one of those with you! I don’t know how unique I am since I see you have quite a number of readers who love your work (deservedly so!), but I appreciate that you appreciate my appreciation. 😀 It’s such a joy for me to have found your stories, and add to that how you are someone I love to have a chat with whenever the chance arises, it makes me feel the fortunate one.
Oh you are nice! Well, I feel the same, though I know I’m not very good at sustaining a conversation.
I am actually launching a newsletter for people who would like to know the news first about what’s going on with my work, and who might like to chat on a less public forum. If that sounds like something you might like, then you can sign up for it here:
mailto:newsletter-request@alexbeecroft.com
I mean to use it as a place to chat with people who are really interested in my stuff and offer some giveaways and maybe offer some new stuff before I send it to the wider world. It’s not really up and running yet, but it’s getting to the point where it ought to be, because I’ve got an ARC of Trowchester Blues to give away, and the book’s got the sign up address in it. Do you think anyone’s likely to go for that?
I think ot sounds like a wonderful idea. I haven’t been part of any author forums or things like street teams and such, but I think it’s lovely to have those around. It tires me out thinking of all the outreach authors must do, but I hope something like this would be fun for you to do and not just something in the way of more marketing to handle.
Thank you! Yes, I’ve decided I just can’t seem to do social media. It doesn’t help that I’m not great at putting on a performance, and almost all I have to say I like to say through my books rather than in some other, non-fictional way. So if I could just approach it as more of a case of telling my friends what was going on (and being available to answer their questions) that might make more sense to me. I’m really glad you think that’s a good idea 🙂 Excellent!