Start watch before coming on stage!!!!
Relax!!!!!
(Make eye contact with people in the audience) Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Welcome back.
(Sip water) Well, welcome everyone to another edition of Shameless Self Promotion. Thanks for coming back. You guys are great. We’ll get right to business, but first, a joke: What’s brown and sticky? (dramatic pause) A stick! (pause for laughs). But seriously, folks, seriously, it’s Aurora Award season. Yep, it’s that time again.
(Become serious) Notoriety, as some of you, I’m sure, know, is the lifeblood of an author’s career. We depend on people telling other people about our writing, sharing on our books, emailing links to our webpages. And you guys do this, and it’s great. But now I’m going to ask one thing more.
If, in 2007, you read something of mine that made you think, made you wonder or made you sit back and scratch your head, I’m going to ask you to click on this link. (Signal the html coder with pre-arranged signal)
(Link appears in illuminated text)
This link will take you to the Aurora Awards nomination page, where I hope you will take the time to nominate whatever story you most enjoyed. Voting closes on the 17th of March.
One more note: If you wanted to email me at raewyn07@hotmail[dot]com and let me know what works of 2007 you enjoyed or perhaps did not enjoy (pause for laughs), I’d be glad to get your feedback.
(Loud sigh) Phew. Well. I’m glad that’s over. Man do I hate speaking in public. Thanks for turning out, everyone! Enjoy the rest of the night! (Cue band, exit.)
