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RIP Paul Bearer

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WWE.com has reported that Bill Moody, also known as Paul Bearer and Percy Pringle, has passed away.

Some of you are aware that I am a huge pro wrestling fan and have been since the days of Hulkamania.  I love wrestling.  I find it very entertaining.  But this is not the place for me to defend my love of wrestling.  I don’t feel that I should have to, anyway

Paul Bearer was the manager for three of my favorite wrestlers (at different times): The Undertaker, Kane, and Mankind (Mick Foley, to whom her gave his infamous “I don’t wanna suck it, Uncle Paul” rant).  He was famous for his creepy, ghostly falsetto, which was the perfect counterpoint to the Undertaker’s growl and rasp.

From what I’ve heard, he has been ill for some time.  At one point he was up to 525 pounds.  He had a gastric bypass, and lost a lot of weight, but he was still near 300.

He hasn’t appeared much on WWE in the past few years.  I think his last appearance was last year, where Kane left him tied up in a freezer (I never said that wrestling wasn’t silly).

And so I raise an urn in toast to the man whose voice creeped me out, Paul Bearer.  May you forever cut promos in Heaven.

Paul Bearer with the Undertaker, back when Taker had hair

Motion + Lotion = Self Promotion?

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I don’t enjoy promoting my work. I find it very embarrassing, and I fear that I annoy my friends with the constant Facebook posts and Tweets.  I don’t think that I am very good at it.  I am good at writing, and to be honest, that is all that I am good at (that, and cunnilingus…ask your mom).

So when I ask people to check out my serial “The Watchmage of Old New York” for free at Jukepop Serials, I am embarassed.  I am not a bold person and this is a problem, because if I can’t promote myself as a writer, I am bound to fail.  I don’t have anything else to fall back on, I have no useful skills.  If I fail, I am pretty much fucked.

I have the motion, but I don’t have the lotion.  I am not smooth.  I am ashamed.  I blush and I shake as I type when I ask people to VOTE for “Watchmage” (you can vote once for each chapter) and to share “Watchmage” with your friends through Twitter and Facebook posts.  When I brag that “Watchmage” is on the Editor’s Picks list, I only do so because it means that the story is one of the top serial on a website that only takes top serials.  I am proud, because I wrote a good story and I want people to enjoy it.

It’s only going to get harder when my novel comes out, and even harder than that when my second novel is done (1st draft should be done by April).

Fellow writers, I would love to hear how you got over the embarassment of self promotion.  Also, what techniques do you use to promote.  I think that I’ve gotten as much out of Facebook and Twitter as possible.  I started using TuesdaySerial, but I don’t know how much it has helped.

Readers, i would love to hear you opinions on self promotion. does it have a negative effect?  What can I do to improve my technique?  I want your feedback.  I want to not offend.

 

Looking for something to do?

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Are you snowed in like me? Tired of watching all of these damn snowflakes fall sideways onto the ground?  Crying of boredom into your steaming mug of hot cocoa (with tiny marshmallows, of course)?

Don’t be jealous, I’m actually drinking tea…stupid diet

I’ve got a great idea…

Why don’t you catch up on The Watchmage of Old New York, my fantastic serial from Jukepopserials.com.  Watchmage… is currently an Editor’s Pick, so you know that it’s much, much better than most online drivel.  Of course, if you’ve been reading this blog, you know that I’m a damn good writer, and should not be surprised.

Registration is required for more than the first “chapter.”  Lucklily, I jammed two chapter’s worth into the first one, so you can read a good 4000 words before having to register, not that it’s hard.  That’s like Two Chapters for the Work of One!!

But the best thing that you can do is to VOTE for Watchmage at the bottom of the page.  VOTING not only lets the editors know that people like my work (helping me to sell work in the future) but it entitles me to earn cash bonuses if i pass certain milestones.

It’s also a very good story, a Cross-Genre Fantasy that mixes historical, magical, noir, and mystery elements into one great big pile of Awesomeness.  Think Buffy meets The Dresden Files meets Ugly Americans meets American Gods meets Gangs of New York.

Where else will you find a Fire Elemental on one page, and a Lower East Side rabbi that quotes Emerson on another?  And I haven’t even mentioned the faerie mafia…yet.

So Read!  Vote!  Share with your Friends!  Tell your Friends to Read!  Vote!  Share with their Friends!  So that their friends can Read!  Vote!  Share with their Friends…