Jonathan’s Blog

Yesterday I got an email from Chris Bigelow (my publisher) saying he’d been contacted by the University of Utah student newspaper asking for a review copy of No Going Back, plus my email address for a possible interview. I was pleased, of course — any publicity is good publicity, as they say, and this sounds like at least the possibility of publicity. It made me wonder, though, just what happened in the 6-weeks-plus since Chris sent the initial news release about the book. Has it been sitting in someone’s in-box all this time? Waiting for stacking, sorting, prioritizing? Or did someone at the newspaper find out about my novel in some other way entirely?

And then, of course, I realized that six weeks isn’t really that long after all, no matter how long it may seem to me as the author. Not at all unreasonable. (more…)