Boston.com features an article about songwriter and musician
Joe Pernice, whose first novel, “It Feels So Good When I Stop,” has just been
published by a division of the Penguin Group. As clever tie-in, Pernice’s
record label (which he co-owns) is releasing a soundtrack album of him covering
songs mentioned in the book.
(A marketing thought: even if you’re not a musician
yourself, could you find an ambitious band to collaborate with on something
like this, to jointly promote your work?]
And if you’re one of those writers who can’t help going over
what you’ve written every day before writing more, take heart, it worked for
him: I’ve heard from so many who read books about how to write books, and they
tell me that was the exact way you shouldn’t write a book. I’d write for a day,
and then the next morning I would edit what I wrote the day before and then
write my new stuff. It gave me a chance to really know who my characters were
because I would reintroduce myself to them every day.”
