This weekend is the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Earlier this month, I was fortunate to get a 5-minute “Author Spotlight” on a Toledo local news station (I zoomed in from Indiana). My graphic memoir The Keeper, has been out for 6 months now, and I feel like I’m finally hitting my stride in terms of talking about it to different audiences: creative writers, comics-folks, athletes, sports and Title IX historians, women’s organizations, kids at local schools, and even newscasters. Between book events and keeping up with my job as a professor, one of the last things on my mind has been the question the newscaster asked:
I have always been fascinated by the sinking of the Titanic... have definitely watched way too many documentaries, etc. This looks great, it'll be cool to see it when you are able to work on it (which I feel deeply, I never seem to have time for my personal work).
"As I answered, I could also feel myself intentionally wanting to push back on a trend I’ve seen in publishing: that a book that is six-months-old is already considered over the hill. All the energy is focused on FORTHCOMING TITLES, on COVER REVEALS, on PREORDERS."
That's such a damn awesome column! I love it, Vike!!! And I'm gonna keep supporting The Keeper for now. But it WAS nice to be reminded of this other project -- whether it's the next book or the next NEXT book or whatever, I do look forward to seeing/reading more!
So hope that you get both/all things... The time to continue supporting the creative works youve birthed into the world AND giving life to this project about your grandmother.
I have always been fascinated by the sinking of the Titanic... have definitely watched way too many documentaries, etc. This looks great, it'll be cool to see it when you are able to work on it (which I feel deeply, I never seem to have time for my personal work).
Great post! And this:
"As I answered, I could also feel myself intentionally wanting to push back on a trend I’ve seen in publishing: that a book that is six-months-old is already considered over the hill. All the energy is focused on FORTHCOMING TITLES, on COVER REVEALS, on PREORDERS."
Hugely yes to all of this! More people need to think about the What's Now, rather than the What's Next.
That's such a damn awesome column! I love it, Vike!!! And I'm gonna keep supporting The Keeper for now. But it WAS nice to be reminded of this other project -- whether it's the next book or the next NEXT book or whatever, I do look forward to seeing/reading more!
xoxo
Peter Frampton
So hope that you get both/all things... The time to continue supporting the creative works youve birthed into the world AND giving life to this project about your grandmother.