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Tee Morris

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What You Do When Your Book Gets a Bad Review

February 12, 2016 by Tee Morris 9 Comments

 

You know, I wish we didn’t need to have this conversation, but yeah, we do.

GOT-pleaseEveryone has their own way of dealing with reviews, and let’s be frank—not everyone will like what you do. Reviews, good or bad, are part of the territory. Reviews are a rite of passage for authors, the objective points-of-view that sit down with the final product and say, “Holy crapbuckets, this is the best book I’ve ever read!” or “Many trees died to make this book. Avenge them.” Whenever a new work hits the shelves, virtual or literal, I am always on edge. You have been working closely with editors and peer readers who all invest a part of themselves in your title because they believe in what you do; and if you are fortunate, these voices because they believe in you are going to be blunt, honest, and sometimes cruel to be kind. “My job as an editor is not to change a book,” I heard Ellen Datlow say on a podcast. “My job is to take a good story and make it great.” [Read more…] about What You Do When Your Book Gets a Bad Review

Filed Under: Geek Chic, Rants, Opinions, and Overall Observations, Steampunk, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Writing Tagged With: Aftermath, bad reviews, bloggers, choices, Chuck Wendig, critics, good reviews, negative, professional, rant, reviews, Star Wars, The Diamond Conspiracy, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

Don’t Make Resolutions. Make Commitments.

December 31, 2015 by Tee Morris 3 Comments

 

iStock_000013954253_LargeHere comes the end of 2015. How was it? I’m hoping the year was kind to you. I know that, maybe, there were highs and lows; but I hope the highs were up there and lows not too shallow.

Right now, you’re seeing a lot of blogposts either looking back through 2015 or looking ahead to 2016, and as we close in on the countdown, I wanted to ask you all a favor: Knock it off with the New Year’s Resolutions. Let’s focus on getting shit done. Let’s make commitments for 2016. [Read more…] about Don’t Make Resolutions. Make Commitments.

Filed Under: Geek Chic, Rants, Opinions, and Overall Observations, Writing Tagged With: 2015, 2016, commitments, determination, goals, Happy New Year, personal, professional, promises, resolutions, Writing

From Rock Star to Ronin: The “True Dat” of This Writer’s Life

August 20, 2012 by Tee Morris 14 Comments

Closing in on the end of the summer, I’m looking back at the year with a cockeyed perspective. First, I’m trying to figure out what happened to the summer. Second, I’m trying to gauge how this year will come to an end. You would think with the launch of my second steampunk novel, The Janus Affair, I would think this was the banner year, especially with the showing Tales from the Archives is having at this year’s Parsecs.

It’s been a ride, safe to say.

For those of you following us on Facebook, you know that Pip and I returned from New Orleans just last week. What brought us to The Big Easy was an unexpected invitation to an unlikely match for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. We promised ourselves a priority of 2012 would be to make each appearance count, attempting to reach more steampunk-centric events like the Steampunk World’s Fair, a nice introduction to our target audience. [Read more…] about From Rock Star to Ronin: The “True Dat” of This Writer’s Life

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