Publicity 101

I have a feeling that the ability to don any number of hats is likely to come in mighty handy for me.

As this thing progresses, I'm going to have to be author, sales-person, publicist, chauffeur, personal and business managers, marketing engineer, creator of accessories, and Sidhelagh.

Of all of the roles I'm going to have to take on, I think Sidhelagh is going to be the most useful.

Me, unless I've got a 'script' that I'm familiar with, I'm likely to go tongue-tied at the least opportune moment. 

And yes, I know I can create and 'memorize a script' - and I know that I'm going to have to.  

But ... until then?

Do the best I can with what I have to work with, I reckon.

I've written scores of things about my books - I wrote the bloody BOOKS for cryin' out loud - but writing's a lot different from speaking.

When somebody asks me what my books are about, I ought to just give them a basic story line.

The SONG stories ... they're all about individuals, a family, a community, a culture, threatened by circumstances beyond their control. The world is changing around them and they have to decide whether to change with it or not. In 487 AD the changes were related to Rome's 'usurping' of Christianity, transforming it, and battling on many fronts to establish its supremacy in its new form.  

The Old Ways had to go, or be assimilated into the new religion.

The Keepers of the Old Ways, including the people of our stories, were at risk.

blah blah blah blah

The thing about people who ask questions is that they aren't going to be interested in ancient cultural events. 

AND they want an answer in five words or less. 

AND the words had better be of one syllable each.

pffffft

From now on I think I'll just go with listing the elements of the Song of the Trinity.

Choice
Creation, Life, Death, Eternity
Peace
Faith
Healing
Hope
Love
Unity

Those are more than five words, and some of them are of more than one syllable, but ... THEY ARE MY SONG says the Mother ... and so they are.

Here's what I think.

I think I'm going to have to do what I did back in high school when I had a speech to give:  practice it out loud.

Poor Duke is liable to wonder if I've finally taken complete leave of my senses.  

Well, no time like the present, right?

Right.

I'd better get darned good at this, I tell ya.

I might have to invest in another gadget or two if I'm gonna do this thing right.

*off I go to make a fool of myself in the privacy of my own study with only Duke as my audience