Well, what a lovely time I had on Tuesday. Lunch was at
Brasserie Max which I can totally recommend if money is no object. Important things first: I had asparagus and a poached egg with champagne
hollandaise to start, followed by the daily special, a pork chop with thyme
jus. Yum, yum, yum. Oh, yes, and we talked about me, me,
me. Really, what could be nicer?
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| Jessica Hart |
My fantasy about the publicist telling me not to bother
about social media got a laugh, but as suspected, remains a fantasy. Starting
next week (aarrgghh) I will be writing two blogs, one here as Jessica Hart and
another as Pamela Hartshorne, for which I am going to have to reinvent myself
and be serious and sensible. No more
wittering. No more holiday pics. No more
whingeing about the writing process. Oh
dear me, no. We’re talking history and
research and proper author stuff over there.
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| Pamela Hartshorne: spot the difference? |
Confusingly, this means that the real me will be carrying
on here under an assumed name, while I assume a false identity to blog under my
real name. I’ve been trying to update
this blog twice a week (in between holidays) but will have to scale back to
once a week I think or my head might explode.
And then there’s Facebook. I have a very happy time on my
Jessica Hart page but now I’m going to have to be a different person there too. I set up a Pamela Hartshorne page some time
ago in fact and currently have all of 2 likes (wonder who the other person
is!) - if you’re on Facebook and can
bear to pop over and ‘like’ me, it would be much appreciated! - and I've made a total mess of Twitter, twittering as @PamHartshorne
but really Jessica Hart, and as a result am not sure WHO I am now.
Still, it has to be done. Everyone says so. I have a nasty feeling my split personality strategy is
going to be a hard one to pull off, but I’ll have a go. Want to take bets on how long I last before
beating my head on the desk?
So I'll be back in a week. Be good until then, and have a great weekend.
Blimey, my head is spinning and I'm vey glad I'm not you, or you playing at being you when really Jessica is more like the real you. Okay, going to lie down in a dark room now LOL.
ReplyDeleteMake room for me in that dark room, Aurelia!
DeleteHow very confusing for you! I've just looked you up on Amazon. I had no idea you'd written all those books about cathedrals. What a person of many parts you are! I love time-slip novels so will be looking out for yours when it comes out.
ReplyDeleteI just edited the cathedral books, Gail, so can't claim the credit, I'm afraid - although I did write the part of the history of the Merchant Adventurers. Editing books about these wonderful buildings is absolutely my favourite job!
DeleteMy advice would be to stick with one twitter account. Link to it from both blogs/FB pages etc and make sure that both names are there in your bio. But that way you get some freedom to tweet as yourself, to generate some potential crossover audience, and to take advantage of the way it's already set up with your real name!
ReplyDeleteWhy can't you be Jessica Hart, aka Pamela Hartshorne? Soon everyone will know you are one in the same and your two will become one and all will be right in the world. As I know you have stick-to-it-ness, I give you 2-3 months...or when you realize the only way to do it is to hire someone, it will all end rather quickly. Good luck.
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