Comments on: Guest Post: Karen Healey is Waiting for the Miracle

By: Internets, I Am An Octopus | Karen Healey

Internets, I Am An Octopus | Karen Healey — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:43:26 +0000

[...] I wrote about being a neurotic mess waiting for my novel to debut. Because that is how I currently roll. Teaser: Waiting is far from the worst thing in the world, [...]

By: Alvina

Alvina — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:46:53 +0000

Uh…just kidding?

By: Karen Healey

Karen Healey — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:02:07 +0000

Alvina, I was just going to leave a comment on your post pointing out that you forgot to mention that you are ten kinds of awesome personified, but now I have to go feed myself into a woodchipper, so sad!

By: alvina

alvina — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:38:32 +0000

Ohhh….Karen, did I not tell you? GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD is pubbing in April 2011, not 2010! We had to push it out a year. Sorry.

Mwuahahahahahaha.

By: Karen Healey

Karen Healey — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:17:26 +0000

Diana:

I think a delay might have seriously damaged my calm! A friend was recently notified that her May debut would be shifted back a couple months and it was agonising.

By: Shveta Thakrar

Shveta Thakrar — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:10:04 +0000

*wishes patience came in a bottle* I could sure use some, too!

Karen, I can’t wait for your book. It sounds wonderful.

By: Becca

Becca — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:59:51 +0000

Maybe it’s all about going back to your childhood: NAPS. napping the time away is totally underrated (at least where I live), but it sure works for me.

By: Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:46:31 +0000

Karen, I’m feeling your pain. When they delayed the release of RAMPANT last year by several months, I almost went mad. The last few months before the release of a YA novel is pure insanity.

By: Kristan

Kristan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:42:22 +0000

Lol! No disrespect to any of the other guest bloggers, but this has been my favorite guest post so far. I especially love the Great Gatsby reference (and response, hee).

How do I wait? I try not to think about it. After I get all the info I can, I tell myself to hope for the best, expect the worst, and read/write a lot in the meantime. As a distraction, of course.

Anyway, if your book is as well written and entertaining as this post, I wouldn’t worry too much. Good luck though!

By: Lara Morgan

Lara Morgan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:36:06 +0000

Nothing works. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. And the more you surf incessantly hoping for some tragic mention of ‘the book’ the more you see there are more porn sites that come up than actual author/review/anyone interested at all sites.
Personally, I’m waiting for my second book to come out (Feb 24 SHAMELESS PLUG!!)and only feeling slightly nauseous, melodramatic and Shakespearean. Lady Macbeth? pah, she’s an amateur.
Yours in sympathy and madness. L.M.

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:26:10 +0000

Oooh, I’m SO excited for your book. I heard about it through Justine (I think) a few weeks ago and it sounds really interesting!

As for waiting patiently. HAH. I can never seem to figure out how to make time go faster. That whole “fall asleep and then Santa will be here” thing doesn’t work for me. I WANT it to work. I TRY to go to sleep. But Mr. Sandman always ignores me when I need him most.

That’s what the internet is for. And when you’ve read everything on all your normal sites and nobody is updating fast enough? Then you turn to books. That’s my favorite way to pass time. (Especially when I have school work that I should be doing. Heh.)

So… yeah, I’m an impatient waiter. Maybe you should take up a new TV show? One with several seasons that will take up all that waiting time? I recomment The Office (American version) or Castle (though it’s only got a couple seasons) or LOST if you really want to invest yourself into something. LOST is pretty much the best show EVER.

Oops. Did I ramble? I’m trying to take up time right now, too. Heh.

By: Karen Healey

Karen Healey — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:10:31 +0000

Lili:

Tried that! Didn’t work! I mean, I *do* love SUMMERTON and I am a little bit over GUARDIAN, but that just means I’m now waiting on TWO books (and writing the third).

By: Emily Gale

Emily Gale — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:05:26 +0000

Karen, I hear ya! I even dedicated my debut to my children ‘who are much better at waiting than I am’. And they’re quite rubbish too but still significantly more patient than their mother. I think it’s made all the more torturous because we have access to so much information… it’s just too darn easy to sit here trawling through the interwebs for the merest mention of your book, clicking the ‘refresh’ button on Amazon to see if that stock number has gone down yet (clearly I don’t do this), using the many options Google has to offer – any news, any blog mentions, in the last week, day, 24 hours, 10 minutes?? (or this) Us debut authors are only human; can the more experienced authors reassure us that this obsessional checking and fretting stops at some point? Coincidentally my novel also comes out in Australia, where I now live – I’m a Pom – on April 1st, which will be my first opportunity in 6 months to see the book on a shelf. I hope you enjoy this crazy time, Karen. Best of luck!

By: lili wilkinson

lili wilkinson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:51:54 +0000

My strategy is to write another book while waiting. That way by the time Book #1 comes out, you’re SO OVER it, because you know that Book #2 is SO MUCH MORE EXCITING! How will you EVER wait until Book #2 comes out!? (answer: write Book #3)