Hi everyone! Here you have my Book Trailer #2. I hope you like it.
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Today is a very special day, as my book’s first review has been published. You can read the whole article in the below link (in Spanish):
A special thanks to professor Xavier Diez, a historian, author and professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, for his invaluable support.
HR
Last month I started to send ARCs to authors, academics and journalists who are interested in reviewing my book, prior its release date.
If you know anyone who may be interested in reviewing my book, please feel free to contact me at noticias@es.hectoraliruiz.com
(This applies for the Spanish version, as the English version is currently being edited).
Thank you!
As an independent author -and also self-publishing-, I have bee walking what I refer to as “The long journey to make it…” Definitely it’s not anything new, as hundreds of thousands of writers before me have transited it before.
Sometimes I think on how hard the competition is out there. How many thousands of authors like me are trying to fit in and have their works heard and read. But then I think about how lucky we are for living in the present time, where we have plenty of resources to make our journey worth it. It brings perspective to the meaning of the phrase “enjoy the journey, more than the goal”.
HR
Today is a very special day, as I am releasing the first Book Trailer of my book as you will see below.
Note: This is the book trailer for the Spanish edition, as the English edition of the book is still in the works, but for those English speakers who are also fluent in Spanish, I hope you enjoy it.
It looks like I may have a book cover reveal coming out soon.
Stay tuned.
HR
Hi guys, I just wanted to give another update on the status of my book.
I have been working intensely over the past weeks doing more revisions over the structure, as well as the editorial aspects of the manuscript. Looking back, I thought 2020 was going to be the year I would have it published, but with every passing day, it looks like I’m going to have to push it back to the and of Q1 2021.
The more I work, the more far away it seems I am from the finish line. I know it’s the opposite, and in reality I’m getting closer… but it feels painful and tiring.
Still, I keep pushing through…
HR
I have spent the last days organizing files from my old backups. Really old backups.
Not surprisingly I ran into all of my other books and drafts I have written in my life. I didn’t count how many I had in total because I was fast-clicking and sorting them very quickly, but I estimate there are probably fifteen of them. I opened a few of them, read a few pages and two things struck me: 1) I have drafts that dated over twenty five years ago, and still you can tell by their writing, that they came from me. I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing, but my writing style has definitely been consistent in time. 2) Despite having great and interesting ideas in most of them, I left them unfinished because I ran into a writer’s block (is that’s what it’s called?), and I never came back to them again.
Maybe I should quit being a baby and start working on them again. Maybe I can finish all of them. But I have to publish this one first!
HR
I haven’t posted anything about my book in the past months… mostly due to me having to adapt to working from home, my workload that thankfully I must
say has been huge and I’m happy that’s the way it is, and of course the new set of priorities that come with this new way of life. Of course, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been working on my baby.
As I stated in my previous update about my book, I’m taking this time to go over the finished manuscript, revise it once again, making sure I’m happy with
everything, and also conducting research on all the topics I covered, as well as the analytical approach I discuss throughout all its chapters. Part of this research includes having finished reading a book called “Once Upon a Revolution” about the series of protests that took place in Egypt to remove Hosni Mubarak as president, and the subsequent transition that led to Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s election as current president. I bought this book because I thought it would be similar to mine, but found out it lacked the social analysis that I focus on in Venezuela’s case. The initial stage of the events that took place in Egypt are quite similar to those that happened in Venezuela, however about a third into the book, the parallelisms began to diverge from each other.
It was an interesting read altogether, but sadly I must say that I couldn’t draw too much of it to use into my book. Still, my congratulations to the author. Hopefully one day he’ll be able to get his hands on my book and tell me what he thinks about it.
HR
Well, the title of the post says pretty much what I want to say.
After seeing so many events, projects and plans being put on hold due to the Covid-19 crisis, I believe it is fair to announce that the goal of publishing my book has been put on hold as well. I would like to clarify that by no means I can compare myself to the sizes of those events that have been cancelled or suspended. It’s just that I believe that it’s going to be difficult to promote, market and gain the attention of anyone in a time when it is clear that the priorities right now have to be focused on controlling this global pandemic and
preventing it from becoming a major global crisis.
I will use this time to revise the manuscript, conduct research and updates, and dedicate myself to brainstorm any ideas on the pending matter that I have, which is the book’s cover.
Stay tuned.
HR