Or the unromantic horror of being an author. All the stuff besides writing really cool stuff that you just love--and sometimes your editor--who really is a very sensible guy--puts a bunch of red pen through and gives you his recommendation for how to make it more readable...and the damn jackal is right!!
My hope with this blog is that I'll be able to help others who come after me avoid some of the pitfalls I stepped into. I also will be able to discuss technical stuff here, such as the design of the webpage, and the hell of advertising on a nil budget. Yeah, it's a bitch-fest. You can help me by critiquing my pages, keeping in mind that I am not an HTML wizard, I don't have access to more than a shit page creator at this point, and I don't have the money to hire a professional. I appreciate honest criticism. You can even tell me things such as "Lily, the background on this page sucks butt and here's why," just so long as you have something real to say.
I'll get a couple of questions out of the way right now and since I already said it here, I don't intend to answer these again.
Q. Do you really believe you wrote this book with a ghost? I mean--really--are you that nuts?
A. Yes and yes.
Q. But I don't believe in ghosts.
A. That's all right. They may or may not believe in you.
Q. Listen, about this ghost thing...
A. What part of "this website is about technical and marketing shit" didn't you understand?
With the snarky answers to the inevitable question out of the way, let me state that I do intend to make a blog to address metaphysical issues. Given the nature of my book, I feel this is only right. But this blog isn't it!
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