Old Reviews and Google Alerts

[alanajoli]

I've discovered Google alerts. Now I get a note in my inbox every time I post a blog entry (or every time one of my reviews goes up at Flames Rising). Those seem to be my most common internet mentions lately, and the alert function is keeping me from googling myself too much, so it's been a fun little experiment. Notably, Alana Joli Abbott brings up alerts that are consistently actually me. Alana Abbott, on the other hand, brings up a lot of Alanas and Abbotts that are not grouped together. Still, fun technology.

Ideally, the alert system should keep me from missing the odd reviews of short stories I've had published, or new reviews of my books, that get posted from time to time. As it turns out, I'd missed a really brilliant review of Departure posted on Amazon back in 2007, and just read it for the first time today. Reading what that reviewer had to say really makes me eager for Regaining Home to eventually get out there in the world. Editor Shawn and I have agreed that we're going to keep working on it when we have time, despite the limbo it has been hanging in since I finished the manuscript back in 2007. I don't know what will happen with it for sure, but I hate the feeling of that story existing only in my head, when clearly, there are at least a handful of people who would love to have the chance to read it.

One of these days!

Comments

[mmuenzler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is strange to be both in publishing, but kind of cool in a confusing way as well. The other Michelle Muenzler owns all the Facebook and UTTyler hits, while I own all the publishing and LiveJournal and Twitter stuff, so we are pretty evenly split in our domains.

[slwhitman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been contacted for an interview by USA Today before, looking for the other Stacy Whitman.

[mmuenzler.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that would have been horribly tempting to accept. Definitely a fun story as is to share with folk! :)