opportunities...

[thehefner]

So as I mentioned in my rant yesterday, a friend of mine who's a bestselling novelist and comic book writer of some fame/notoriety has offered me an interning position of sorts with him to help promote his new book. Or to be more accurate, he wanted to see if I would be interested in such an endeavor.

It would involve a lot of the tedious intern work- sending out promotional material for the novel, setting up mailing lists, maintaining his web site, help giving his myspace page a complete makeover, those sorts of things. A lot of which I could do from here at home, which means I wouldn't have to leave the job at the comic shop (which doesn't pay excellently and doesn't employ me often enough, but it's much more pleasant than waiting tables).

Of course, nothing's set yet. His wife already asked another person in their area in Florida, someone who would actually be there in person to help him out rather than him having to fax all the info to me and such. And he's still trying to figure out what all the duties would be.

It'd be a pretty full 20-hour-a-week duty, he tells me. And by his own admittance, it probably won't benefit me with any connections I don't already have (which is to say, him). And it would be a lot of work, possibly of the soul-crushing variety. But hey, if it pays? Well, that just might be the clincher, won't it? We'll be in touch for the next few weeks to discuss further. If it doesn't happen, I'll just end up with a bit less money and much more free time. But if it does? It might end up being kinda cool.

And in either case, he'll still be there to offer me whatever help he can in getting the Hefner Monologues to see print. I've finally realized that there's one more story to go before the Tammy saga is complete. It's not Tammy-centric, but it does give closure and will hopefully tie all the loose ends together to satisfactorily make one book. We'll see.

Comments

[tazira.livejournal.com]

Huh. Sounds genuinely nifty, especially if you can keep the safe job at the comic book store. Good experience for what to do when you publish your own, too, and hey, maybe you can give me some tips. I suck at self-promotion. I've never even arranged a book signing.

[fiveseconddelay.livejournal.com]

one more story to go?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Yep. Because for all that summer and that first semester of college, I had one thought going through my head as I was miserable, unable to eat much of the time, and losing a hell of a lot of weight. I thought: "I will not contact her until October, then I will invite her to Vigil and see what she does."

It's the withdrawal period, but *more importantly* it's where I hope to tie together some of the earlier stuff I'd been doing when I wrote about the Rudes and college (I was blacklisted and now, post-horrible-weight-loss, I've gotten the lead role in a play!) and friendship and my own innocence (remember SimFreshmen, when all the Rudes were waiting on the sidelines to see how long I could keep my innocence intact?), and I want to perhaps explore how I stand post-Tammy. Did I learn anything? Am I a better person? Will this story have a happy ending, or did it already end (happily or not) and am I just too stupid to realize it?

All this culminating with Vigil, and where for one night I performed before an audience including Tammy, Misty, Dave, Mom, and my father (whom she didn't even recognize anymore). And afterwards, I talk with Tammy after we've both had months to reflect and "detox", as I try to get answer, explanations, and closure which everyone has said I would never get.

With that, plus the big one you've read and the two that preceded it, I have a complete story which would be about far more than just "Wah, I had my heart broken."

Of course, those are all ideals. We'll see what it becomes when I actually write it. Thanks for asking, it's helped me formulate a plan!