story collections

As you may or may not know, I’ve got a short story collection coming out this fall, Near+Far. It’s all SF, and we’re using the Ace Double format for it: one side features all near-future stories; flip it over to find the far future ones.

I’ve been plugging away at a g’normous spreadsheet: compiling reviewers and book bloggers and interviewers and all that sort of stuff. Whew. So what am I doing to ramp up to publicize the book?

• Finding reviewers interested in speculative fiction, particularly short stories.
• Organizing a six week blog tour leading up to the book launch.
• Organizing interviews and guest posts.
• Writing a “How you can help” sheet to send to people who might help publicize the book.
• Making give-away items using some of the interior art. They will be supercool!
• Setting up podcasts for some of the stories.
• Planning book-related events for September and October, including readings in Indiana and Maryland.
• Working on some electronic stuff that is still Top Sekrit. 🙂

And then there’s getting the book together, too…It’s like a little circus, all contained on a single spreadsheet.

If you’re a blogger or reviewer interested in participating in any of that, please let me know!