So, folks, it has been quite a ten-day run. Back on the 10th we started programming the festival — an exercise that ate most of the weekend that followed — and since then it’s been a whirlwind of preparing a workshop for the RWA workshop, having a massive allergic reaction to something and breaking out in hives all over my body, actually running the backlist workshop at the Romance Writers of Australia conference, and then dealing with the social anxiety aftermath that follows any large event or workshop I do.
Fortunately, systems slipped back into place today: woke up, wrote some stuff, got ready for work. Now I’m doing a quick post here because the next few days are just as busy as last week.
The link above takes you over to the 90-slide power-point I prepared for the Making The Most Of Your Backlist Workshop, if that’s the kind of thing that’s useful to you. I’m thinking it’s actually a pretty decent book outline if I go through and flesh things out, and may well do so since a) the backlist topic proved to be huge and more than I could cover in 90 minutes, and b) we don’t often take a holistic view of what monetising backlist means because it’s still relatively new for most authors.
Tomorrow and Wednesday will probably be a bust in terms of posting — multiple night events, including one where I need to be professional BWF Peter rather than myself — but I’m hoping to be back on deck for Thursday.