OK, maybe not!
Writing the book actually took about 10 years (or rather, took place over a period of 10 years), and there wasn’t anything easy about it at the time. But writing a novel is a terrible compulsion, so most of the time you’re acting compulsively. You’re not relying on discipline to get you to the next step; it’s more like hurling yourself off a bridge.
Marketing is a more rational commitment. Setting up web sites, setting up meetings, setting up a marketing campaign, all require objectivity and a certain calculation that’s not part of my relationship with the fiction I write. For instance: Tomorrow, or very soon, I need to get some permissions for the lyrics Gracie sings in the book.
Arghhh. Maybe I’ll write another novel to distract myself.
