Publishing advice from a psycademic
"Don't put yourself in a double bind. It's better to do something now than wait until you can do it perfectly." This came from Dr Lisa Turner, psycademic and mechanical engineer. It put into words an odd feeling that I'd had for some time. A number of people have mentioned to me the importance of book signings and giving talks to increase your profile as an author and my reaction so far has been "Great idea! But first I need to be a bit better known." Lisa's point is that this is all part of building your reputation. At some stage you need the PR chicken to lay the publicity egg that will eventually hatch into a magnificent soaring eagle and cure you of mixing your metaphors for ever. (Here's hoping anyway.) But that's what Lisa's on about - there's none of this hope business. You get out there and just do it. "Time travel," she says. "Travel forward in time to where you want to be, then come back in time and take...