What a great article, thank you, Kirthana! I enjoyed the movie, pondered what it would be like to be THAT famous from a blog (I blogged then, still going strong, 17 years later...plus Substack!), so it's sad to hear that Julie got such backlash for being a real person (heavens! clutch my pearls!). I didn't realize she'd died so young.
Thank you! And I remember the 2010s as a peak era of specific kind of online snarkiness, so I also find it hard to imagine what that experience must have been like for her.
Also, very impressed how long you have been blogging--that is quite a feat!
I’ve never done any social media other than my blog and Substack, so I thankfully missed out on the snark. I love my blog community: https://sheilaephemera.blogspot.com, and it’s been interesting getting to know folks here on Substack. So nice to meet you.🥰
this is really great. I have felt the post-publication blues very acutely (mostly because I had to cancel half my book tour in the middle of it because of a family health emergency that became a family health tragedy and has now derailed my entire year with logistics and grief), but I guess I had never realized it was a real phenomenon that I imagine most authors feel at some point. If you have any advice on how to get back on the horse in terms of steering towards a second book, I would be grateful to hear them.
Thanks so much, Marya. And I'm so sorry about everything you've went through this past year. Please know you aren't alone with feeling this way; even the people who seem to have had everything go right experience it too. I'd definitely recommend the link about post-pub blues I shared in the story, which is about how to move forward after your book comes out: https://kathleenschmidt.substack.com/p/getting-through-the-post-publication
If you are so inclined, there can be a lot of opportunities to continue to promote your first book long after pub day, and the above link has a lot of examples how to do so. I'd also suggest doing additional research about how to promote your book after pub day; there are a lot of great Substacks that have ideas about this. Dan Blank is a great place to start: https://danblank.substack.com/
Whenever you feel up to it, I actually think you should see if there is anything you can do to promote your book: podcast interviews, speaking on panels, moderate or attend other book events. I think being immersed in that space can energize you to want to start working on a second book. There really is nothing quite like talking about your book with readers and other authors, and I hope you know you haven't missed your window to do so.
What a great article, thank you, Kirthana! I enjoyed the movie, pondered what it would be like to be THAT famous from a blog (I blogged then, still going strong, 17 years later...plus Substack!), so it's sad to hear that Julie got such backlash for being a real person (heavens! clutch my pearls!). I didn't realize she'd died so young.
Thank you! And I remember the 2010s as a peak era of specific kind of online snarkiness, so I also find it hard to imagine what that experience must have been like for her.
Also, very impressed how long you have been blogging--that is quite a feat!
I’ve never done any social media other than my blog and Substack, so I thankfully missed out on the snark. I love my blog community: https://sheilaephemera.blogspot.com, and it’s been interesting getting to know folks here on Substack. So nice to meet you.🥰
this is really great. I have felt the post-publication blues very acutely (mostly because I had to cancel half my book tour in the middle of it because of a family health emergency that became a family health tragedy and has now derailed my entire year with logistics and grief), but I guess I had never realized it was a real phenomenon that I imagine most authors feel at some point. If you have any advice on how to get back on the horse in terms of steering towards a second book, I would be grateful to hear them.
Thanks so much, Marya. And I'm so sorry about everything you've went through this past year. Please know you aren't alone with feeling this way; even the people who seem to have had everything go right experience it too. I'd definitely recommend the link about post-pub blues I shared in the story, which is about how to move forward after your book comes out: https://kathleenschmidt.substack.com/p/getting-through-the-post-publication
If you are so inclined, there can be a lot of opportunities to continue to promote your first book long after pub day, and the above link has a lot of examples how to do so. I'd also suggest doing additional research about how to promote your book after pub day; there are a lot of great Substacks that have ideas about this. Dan Blank is a great place to start: https://danblank.substack.com/
Whenever you feel up to it, I actually think you should see if there is anything you can do to promote your book: podcast interviews, speaking on panels, moderate or attend other book events. I think being immersed in that space can energize you to want to start working on a second book. There really is nothing quite like talking about your book with readers and other authors, and I hope you know you haven't missed your window to do so.