This is me, channeling girlboss energy with my author besties.
Okay, it's the platonic ideal--but we need this today.
Our preorders were cancelled for the new author anthology I'm in, and we have spent the last 24 hours crying, pulling out our hair, and trying to help our fearless organizer, Priscilla Rose, not jump off a cliff. (We've sorted it out and have a new booklink: https://books2read.com/u/mgNKlR)
This is what the reality has been:
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I still would do it again--and plan to do it again next year.
New authors are encouraged to contribute to anthologies. Make new friends! Learn something! Get your name out there! And it's all true.
But they can also be hit and miss. Sometimes they're great and other times they're not. (The two I've been a part of have been wonderful, but there's another forthcoming one that I'm iffy on.) And when you're new, you might not know how to find the good ones.
Trial and error. Luck and hard work. Look at the pieces about luck last week - this was definitely me in the case of the Once Upon a Forbidden Desire anthology in Fall-Winter 2022. I was in the right place at the right time and jumped on the opportunity. Boy, was I fortunate!
The Bound in Magic anthology also came out of the FaRo group - a group of us were highlighted in a FaRo blog post, 10 Debut Fantasy Romance Authors to Love On in 2022. We ran a giveaway and then came up with the idea of writing stories for an anthology.
These authors are amazing! We are all quirky and creative, and there has been so much love and support over the months that I can't believe it! It really has been the dream.
Except when it turned into a nightmare and our book and preorders were canceled.
But now we're back smiling with relief, and laughing in a field of sunflowers!
If you would like to see the fruits of our labours, please order our book! Bound in Magic (https://books2read.com/u/mgNKlR).
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Until next time,
Mimi B. Rose
