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You may not know this, but I have been looking for guests who write outside the normal featured genres on Get Published. Traditionally, I have had lots of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers with the occasional Horror person thrown in for good measure.

This hasn’t been done to exclude all the other genres, I promise you. It is more about who I know in the writing field than any effort to exclude anyone.

That means, I haven’t been networking outside my own chosen genre as well as I should. That is a shame because ALL writers have something to share about their own publishing journeys, market differences and even the various tropes that are inherent to their own genres of choice.

I am happy to have a guest from a new genre today.

My guest today is Nicole Chardenet. She has just released her newest book, Sumer Lovin’ in multiple eFormats with the dead tree version coming out in just a few days.

Sumer Lovin’ is a very different book from what I normally read. It is a comedy of sorts that deals with people trying to find love and lust in Toronto. Definitely not something I normally read. I could tell you what I thought of it now, but that would only spoil the review I will give you in the Tips and Typos section of the book.

Regardless of whether it is normally my thing, Nicole and I had a LOT of fun in the interview. Humour is something I am very interested in and the conversation was great. Oh yeah, and did I mention that Nicole’s first book was self-published? Because of that, she was able to give us a comparison between self-published and tradionally published. It was great!

That’s today’s episode. I hope you enjoy it.

Show Notes

00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode 102 – Nicole Chardenet Brings Laughs to Love

Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of “Get Published”

00:14 — Introduction – Get Published Episode 102 – Nicole Chardenet Brings Laughs to Love (continued)

Welcome to the show.

02:01 Promo: BabylonPodcast

03:03 -Tips and Typos

Mike reviews Sumer Lovin’

05:54 - Promo – Nutty Bites

06:24 — Get Published Episode 102 – Nicole Chardenet Brings Laughs to Love (continued)

Nicole and Mike talk about humour, self-publishing vs. traditional publishing, being offended and Sumer Lovin’

45:25 - Promo - Flying Island Press

46:10 — Closing

Thank you for listening.

Websites mentioned in this episode:

Nicole Chardent – http://www.nicolechardenet.com/

Deux Voiliers Publishing - https://sites.google.com/site/deuxvoilierspublishing/

Babylon Podcast - http://www.babylonpodcast.com/

NIMLAS Studios/Nutty Bites - http://nimlas.org/blog/

Flying Island Press - http://flyingislandpress.com/

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I love helping other people spread the word about what they are working on. I even like talking about what I’m working on. What (I think) I am terrible at is promoting my own finished work.

In this case, I’m talking specifically about Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero.

As you probably know, Mik Murdoch was released last August. I have tweeted about it. I have created a Facebook Group and I have received several great reviews about it. What I haven’t done is managed to spread the word well to the target demographic (youth 9 – 14, in case you are wondering). That means doing school visits, readings at the public libraries and even bookstore signings.

The challenge for me has been that I’m a new author. It seems that schools and public libraries are gunshy to bring someone unproven come in. Even if that person is doing the appearance without charge. It seems that the only way to change their mind is to either do it somewhere else (cyclical problem) or generate some buzz.

Buzz can be difficult to start, but something has happened recently that might help. Preditors and Editors has a Reader’s Choice poll going on for Children’s books. Mik Murdoch, much to my delight, has been nominated. It would really help my cause if everyone who can goes and votes for it. You can do this at: http://critters.org/predpoll/novelchildrens.shtml.

If you have the time, please take a moment to drop over to the site and vote for Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero. There are LOTS of books nominated, so anything you can do will really help.

For those of you with blogs, podcasts, radio shows, television shows or cameo movie appearances, let me know. I will make myself available to talk about whatever you like (for the opportunity to promote Mik). I would also love to hear about any other ideas you might have that will help me move this forward.

Thank you for all of your help thus far and in the future.

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