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November 13-14:  Get Read – Marketing Strategies for Writers: Dan Blank’s We Grow Media is a  two-day online conference for authors looking for promotion strategies–and, ultimately, readers.  Speakers include Porter Anderson, Chuck Wendig, Dan Blank, Jane Friedman, Therese Walsh, and many others.  (I’m one of the scheduled speakers and am also am serving on the advisory board.)  More information about the conference and registration information can be found here.

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Hi everyone.  Hope you all have a great weekend.  I’ve got a guest post today at the We Wanted to be Writers blog–they have an interesting feature called “Books by the Bed” and they asked me to contribute.

After reading some of the great entries from other writers, I wasn’t really sure I even felt comfortable submitting a post! I had a feeling that when I explored my bedside table, it was going to be crammed-packed with Agatha Christies (yellowing paperbacks from the 80s that I still have) and a Kindle full of mysteries. As usual, everything was a blur when I tried to remember what I’d been reading in the last several months.  But when I took a look and reconstructed my purchases, borrows, library checkouts, and old favorites that I frequently peek at before sleeping, I realized that my reading is actually more varied than I give myself credit for. 

Pop over if you can and share what’s on your bedside table (or what you’ve read in the past few months).

A Good Mystery

A good mystery helps restore order and makes sense out of something that is unexplainable in our society. People do not like to live in a society that doesn’t respond to logic. How do you protect yourself if there is not a logical explanation for what is happening? When we experience brokenness in our society, we need someone to fix what is broken and fill the hole in our universe that threatens the logic of our lives. The mystery can be personal, a mysterious death, or enter the area of thrillers with a threat to our whole society. A good mystery helps us make sense and restore order again.

An Anxious Society

The news seems dominated by scandals and examples of forces beyond human control. In politics, think Anthony Wiener, in religion think Jimmy Swaggart, in ecology think Tsunami or Hurricane Sandy, in the economy recall the large banks and investment firms fiascos. On a personal level, we hear of crazy people with guns invading our schools and terrorists threatening our embassies. How does a person make sense of how to live in such a crazy world?

Fascination with Powers Beyond Our World

If the media is a barometer of our society, we see an increased fascination with chaos, and with the possibility of forces beyond our visible world touching our lives. Think of the various versions of Dystopia in recent books and movies. Think also of the popularity of stories about vampires, demons, and alien invasions as well as the traumatic breakdown of our ability to control the forces of nature.

There is also an increased interest in Super Heroes who can save us from ourselves. These range from Superman, Spiderman, to friendly aliens like ET and the world of Harry Potter. On a more personal level, there is the rise in popularity of Gurus with special secrets of how to lose weight, find peace, become rich, etc.

Mysteries with a Spiritual Edge

This hunger in our society for ways to restore order, either by human courage or mysterious forces from outside our world, makes mysteries with a spiritual edge particularly appealing. Such mysteries allow the reader to experience the chaos but also the promise that life will ultimately make sense once the mystery is solved. By adding the spiritual angle to the mystery, we address the interest in how we can draw upon forces from beyond our visible world to assist us.

Some mystery/thrillers like those written by Dan Brown, suggest that there is some secret to be discovered that can unleash these powers into our world. In my mystery novel, A Star and aTear, I choose access to the spiritual forces through the more common experience of religious disciplines, relationships, and reason. In my story, the demonic aspect of life is represented by the toxic mixture of a distorted version of sex and religion that wreaks terror in the community. The mystery is solved by a healthier confrontation with the symbiotic relationship of sexuality and spirituality.

Sex, Religion, Reason, and Hope

As one of the characters in my novel says, “religion and sex are two of the most powerful creative and destructive forces in our universe.” We deny the reality of these forces at our own peril. However, as the mystery is solved, we make sense out of life again, terror is banished, and hope is present. 

I invite you to enter the conversation and join me in my effort “to build respect for clergy one story at a time.” Click here , enjoy the mystery, and consider if this would be a good book for discussion among your friends.

Having a Discussion with Friends

If you have a group of five or more, I am willing to provide you a discount code of 20% to apply to your Amazon bill. Contact me at steve@smccutchan.com to secure the code.

The book includes provocative questions at the end of each chapter to help your group probe some of the themes that are in the book. As you discuss the book in your group, you may also want to email two or three questions to me as the author and I will respond as quickly as I can. We also may be able to find a common date in which we could have a more personal conversation via Skype.

I hope you will enjoy A Star and a Tear. 

Stephen McCutchan, writer, humorist, and advocate for the care of clergy, is a Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister and the author of Let’s Have Lunch: Conversation, Race, and Community; Experiencing the Psalms (recipient of the Jim Angell award from the Presbyterian Writers Guild); Good News for a Fractured Society, and three volumes of lectionary devotionals for pastors plus two CDs, A Deep Well for the Pastor and Laughter from the Well.

Although I don’t do a ton of interviews, I probably do a live or recorded interview every few months.  I especially like the recorded ones because I figure if I say something dumb, they can edit it all out and make me look as if I know what I’m talking about. :)

I’ve learned from my mistakes in the past with these things, too.  I think of my house as being a very quiet place, but apparently, judging from my interview experiences, there is actually plenty of noise pollution there.  The pets, for one.  My corgi will bark at the cats, at the doorbell, and sometimes when she wants to go outside.  The cats are male litter-mates and fight tooth and nail with each other.  Various appliances make buzzer-like alarms when they’re done running.  My UPS guy feels the need to hit the doorbell when he drops off a package (I do appreciate this, but it makes the aforementioned barking happen).

I try to schedule interviews when no one is at home.  This has worked with 90% of my Skype interviews. But I’ve got some kind of radio-related curse.  Whenever I have a radio interview, and the ones I’ve done have unfortunately all been live, I will most certainly have a sick child or a snow day on my hands (with school canceled). This is one reason I know it’s a curse—y’all know it doesn’t snow down here in the American South all that often.

So here’s the checklist that I use before an interview, in the hopes it can help you out, too:

Where are the children?  Have I told them what I’m doing, so that they won’t accidentally disturb me? Regardless of the fact you’ve told them about the interview, put a sticky note on your door so that they’ll remember before they knock.

Put the dog in a back bedroom.

Put the cats away (in a separate room from the dog).

Put a sticky note on the door asking Fed-X, UPS, and the mailman not to ring the doorbell.

Put my cellphone away or mute it.

Have water nearby.  I will immediately have a coughing fit, guaranteed, whenever I’m supposed to be recorded. 

Skype specific:

Do a sound/video check.

Turn on lots of lights in the house and provide backlighting, too. 

Wear lots more makeup than usual. Or, in my case, wear make-up, period.

Pull out my webcam. It seems to be much better-quality than the one that came with my laptop.

Remember not to look at the computer, where I see the interviewer.  I need to look in the camera, or else I look distracted.

What’s in the background? Do I need to dust?  :) 

Books.  Have a book nearby that I can hold up…if it’s that kind of interview.  Sometimes it’s not a promo thing, it’s a craft thing and I might just have books on my dusted table in the background.

Radio and podcast specific:

Don’t use my cellphone to call in.  Use the house phone.

Turn off call waiting if you have it.

They’re fond of hearing the station’s call letters in the broadcast.

For any interview:

See if I can get the questions in advance.  It helps me give a more thoughtful answer and just provides them with better content, in general.

Be able to sum up your book in one sentence because you’ll usually be asked to tell the interviewer about your most-recent release or what you’re working on now.

Last week’s interview was with Gabriela Pereira with DIYMFA for Lit Loft writing conference and online course.  You can see a little of what we touched on at Gabriela’s site, here.

Have any tips I’ve missed about interviews?  Have you been interviewed?  How did it go?

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How to win a Pulitzer Prize: http://dld.bz/cPPq9 @TheWriterMag

Tools to Organize Your Book Manuscript: http://dld.bz/cPPqE @grubwriters

10 Things 1 Writer Has Learned about Crowdfunding (and why writers should try it): http://dld.bz/cPPqP @MaryDeMuth

The Hidden World of the Typewriter: http://dld.bz/cPYVx @jjamesjoiner

The 5 Rookie Mistakes Writers Make When Negotiating A Contract: http://dld.bz/cPYV6 @WritersRelief

5 Steps To Develop A Terrific Writing Style: http://dld.bz/cPYWa

How Not To Treat Your Editor: http://dld.bz/cPYW4 @edsikov

Pet words: http://dld.bz/cPYWA @pageturner @newyorker

2 tips for finding your writing voice: http://dld.bz/cPYWK @KatieAxelson

Freelancers: What to Put On Your Writer Website if You’re a Newbie: http://dld.bz/cPYWZ @ticewrites

A Genealogy of Speculative Fiction: http://dld.bz/cPYXh @kaath09

6 ways to be more like Hemingway: http://dld.bz/cPYXs @fastcompany

1 writer’s journey to publication and her advice for writers: http://dld.bz/cPYXE @KatZhang

Even if you don’t live great stories, you can write them: http://dld.bz/cPYXT @ventgalleries

9 Epic Literary Burns: http://dld.bz/cPYYb @mental_floss

‘Think About Characters Like a Sphere’: http://dld.bz/cPYYg @joefassler

Poetry Isn’t as Useless as a Lot of Poets Say It Is: http://dld.bz/cPYYh @theatlantic

4 Ways To Create A Strong Antagonist: http://dld.bz/cPnaw @woodwardkaren

4 Ways to Improve Your Writing: http://dld.bz/cPz2m @ava_jae

What you should work on now: http://dld.bz/cPz8q @tannerc

7 Craft Lessons Every Writer Must Learn: http://dld.bz/cQdrH @Readwritestory

Steps to deal with writer’s block: http://dld.bz/cQdsa @LeahMcClellan

5 Reasons Every Writer Should Journal: http://dld.bz/cQd6z @shewritesdotcom

The Power of Understatement in Fiction Writing: http://dld.bz/cQd6D @JaneFriedman @carmelbird

Do you need an agent to sell your book? http://dld.bz/cQd6M @deanwesleysmith

How Not to Be a Writer: 15 Signs You’re Doing It Wrong: http://dld.bz/cQd6V @KMWeiland

An analysis of Agatha Christie’s appeal: http://dld.bz/cQd7e @Writers_Write

The magic of the new idea: http://dld.bz/cQd8e @altait

17 writers’ quotes on writing: http://dld.bz/cQd8t

The Grief Writer: http://dld.bz/cQd8K @elephantjournal

10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly: http://dld.bz/cQd9p @chronicle

23 Writers Who Were Famous by Age 23: http://dld.bz/cQd9Q @FrugalAndrea

The 6 Habits of Highly Tormented Writers: http://dld.bz/cQdAp @gripemaster @BTMargins

On Being a Writer of Genre Fiction: http://dld.bz/cQdA3 @herebemagic

“Illegal downloading is moral squalor” (and commenters weigh in): http://dld.bz/cQgVx @passivevoiceblg

12 Famous Authors on Writer’s Block: http://dld.bz/cQgV5 @A_WritersStudio

Scene Description Spotlight: “Saving Private Ryan”: http://dld.bz/cQgV6 @gointothestory

Secrets of writing short: http://dld.bz/cQgVD @katysteinmetz @time

Two More Ways for Writers to Milk the Cash Cow: http://dld.bz/cQgVP @jamesscottbell

Vague settings: http://dld.bz/cQgVY @Ross_B_Lampert

Literary Architecture: http://dld.bz/cQgWX @parisreview @SadieStein

7 Advantages of a Verbal Pitch: http://dld.bz/cQgXd @rachellegardner

3 lessons for great storytelling: http://dld.bz/cQgXt @DrNickMorgan @Forbes

How to Create a Three-Phase Writing Ritual: http://dld.bz/cQgX2 @DebraEve @writeitsideways

Life and Death: Proofreading Your Novel: http://dld.bz/cQgXB @evmysterywriter

The Importance of Knowing Why You Write: http://dld.bz/cQnZy @LyndaRYoung’

Face It: You Wrote a Bad Book: http://dld.bz/cQpa9

Talking the Story: http://dld.bz/cQpaA @shalvatzis @TrishaNicholson

Using a graph to revise: http://dld.bz/cQpba

What Your Shelves Say About You: http://dld.bz/cQpbd @BTMargins @nicholebernier

How to Avoid Twitter-Fritter and Facebook-Fail: http://dld.bz/cQpbf @annerallen

Double trouble: two authors in the house: http://dld.bz/cQpbh @nailyournovel

A Straightforward Technique to Make Your Writing More Immediate and Effective: http://dld.bz/cQpd4  @chavelaque

How to Use KDP’s Cover Creator: http://dld.bz/cQpdM @joleene_naylor

Quick Guide: Becoming a Power User on Goodreads: http://dld.bz/cQpdU @Bookgal

Freelancing—Being a “Kept” Writer: http://dld.bz/cQpeB @Jenpens2

What Should an Author Blog About? http://dld.bz/cQpeJ @annerallen

How to Build Engagement With Story, Strategy, and Structure: http://dld.bz/cQs6u @JFBookman

42 Fiction Writing Tips for Novelists: http://dld.bz/cQs6y @melissadonovan

15 Places to Promote Your Book for Free: http://dld.bz/cQs65 @jasonboog @galleycat

Should writers branch into print instead of offering only ebooks? http://dld.bz/cQs7j @JanetKGrant

Top Six Agent Pet Peeves: http://dld.bz/cQs7n @LynnetteLabelle

The $55 Wooden Pencil: http://dld.bz/cQs7s @ChandlerWrites

4 Reasons You Procrastinate and How to Break the Cycle: http://dld.bz/cQs8c @MenwithPens

The Alphabet in Crime Fiction: Technology: http://dld.bz/cQs8g @mkinberg

How Filmmakers Build Twitter Authority On 15 Minutes A Day: http://dld.bz/cQs8m @raindance

Savvy Writing Advice from Famous Authors: http://dld.bz/cQs8t @livewritethrive

8 Places to Look for Your Characters: http://dld.bz/cQs8x @victoriamixon

7 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Book Sales Without Even Realizing It: http://dld.bz/cQs8M @JonathanGunson

5 Reasons Why Perseverance is the Most Important Quality for a Writer: http://dld.bz/cNf35 @Woollz

Using Multiple Texts to Develop Your Story World: http://dld.bz/cP9rP @lisawengland

Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers: http://dld.bz/cPAbS @brainpicker

What you should work on now: http://dld.bz/cPz8q @tannerc

7 Craft Lessons Every Writer Must Learn: http://dld.bz/cQdrH @Readwritestory

Do you need an agent to sell your book? http://dld.bz/cQd6M @deanwesleysmith

Gothic Intersections: Between the Creative and the Critical: http://dld.bz/cPPqq @GothImagination

Writing About Shock and Trauma: http://dld.bz/cP5XR by @cateartios