I’m not very good at publicity.
I’d like to say that this is because I’m a humble man. But I suspect the truth is that I’m egotistical enough that I believe everyone should recognize my brilliance without me having to tell them about it. (I kid… or do I?)
Seriously, though, the reality is that I just don’t like dealing with bureaucracy, busywork, or paperwork. Publicity lies somewhere in the interstice between the three, and if I can figure out some way to procrastinate it, then I’ll end up procrastinating it.
This is why Hervé Jeune had to spend about 5 years trying to get me to send him a biography so that he could put it up on the Guide du roliste, a French roleplaying/gaming site. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that: Every 45 days he would send me an e-mail like clockwork, asking me very politely to send him a biography. And every time I got the e-mail I would dutifully think to myself, “Yup, I should definitely do that.”
And then it would sit in my Inbox until it would expire and disappear (Hervé had the AOL address I’ve had for a decade and a half). And then, a few days later, the new e-mail would pop up and I would think, “Yup, I should definitely do that.”
Well, several months ago I finally got around to doing it. A couple of weeks later, Hervé sent me an e-mail telling me that the whole thing had been translated and that it could be found here. I can’t read a word of it, but it looks pretty nifty. In fact, the whole site looks nifty.
Of course, Hervé sent me that e-mail more than two months ago and I’m only getting around to mentioning it here on the site now.
Which, I suppose, goes to show that I’m no better about publicity now than I’ve ever been.
Ah well…
