{"id":4546,"date":"2015-02-26T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T02:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2020-08-17T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:00:16","slug":"gearing-up-for-a-book-launch-and-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2015\/02\/gearing-up-for-a-book-launch-and-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearing up for a book launch&#8230; and waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fanned-Books.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4547\" src=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fanned-Books-300x274.png\" alt=\"The Mapmaker Chronicles A.L.Tait\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fanned-Books-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/allisontait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fanned-Books.png 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With just over four weeks until the launch of<em>\u00a0<strong>Prisoner of The Black Hawk<\/strong><\/em>, book two in <a href=\"http:\/\/themapmakerchronicles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mapmaker Chronicles<\/a> series, I&#8217;m in full preparation mode. Or not.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a difficult thing to prepare for, I&#8217;ve discovered &#8211; particularly\u00a0with memories of the launch of book one so fresh. Six months is but the blink of an eye in publishing!<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I do feel better prepared this time. For starters, I have answers ready for questions such as &#8216;What was your favourite book as a child?&#8217; and &#8216;Which writers have most influenced you?&#8217; &#8211;\u00a0both of which flummoxed me the first time around.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also realised that a writer who is both writing and promoting books at the same time needs one major thing in her life: a wall planner. Yes, I&#8217;ve gone over to the dark side, with only highlighter pens to light my way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very excited about sharing the second book in the series.\u00a0I loved watching Quinn grow as I wrote P<em>risoner of The Black Hawk<\/em>, and I hope that readers will, too.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, all I can do\u00a0is to finish the edits on book three (yes, I know how it all ends) and&#8230; wait.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I learned very early in my writing career about <a href=\"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2010\/05\/waiting-writing-samesame\/\">the importance of waiting<\/a>. It really is the unacknowledged skill in every author&#8217;s toolkit, and one of the hardest lessons to learn.<\/p>\n<p>But practice makes perfect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u00a0hate waiting, you can pre-order your copy of <em>Prisoner of the Black Hawk<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/themapmakerchronicles.com\/prisoner-of-the-black-hawk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just over four weeks until the launch of\u00a0Prisoner of The Black Hawk, book two in The Mapmaker Chronicles series, I&#8217;m in full preparation mode. Or not. It&#8217;s a difficult thing to prepare for, I&#8217;ve discovered &#8211; particularly\u00a0with memories of the launch of book one so fresh. 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