Comments on: Not A Formula For Success

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:14:55 +0000

As an author you have to be involved in marketing. As a comment said above, as a small time author you are not going to have lines of people waiting for your next book. You have to get in front of people and also use the internet to create a viral following that could someday pay off well for you.

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By: JudithCoughlin

JudithCoughlin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:13:26 +0000

Wow. Just when I was beginning to think I could be cool and hang with cormac mccarthy and be somewhere above all the, hello my name is (insert) and I’ve written a book and it’s great and you should read it and…Truth be told, the more you do it, the easier it gets, twitter, blogging, reading for groups, sharing until finally you’re so deep in it other people start telling you their stories. That’s when it’s really good.

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By: Lynne Connolly

Lynne Connolly — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:54:49 +0000

I’ve been e-published since 2000 and right from the start I knew that marketing was key to success. But there are so many things to take into consideration. When I first started, I wrote historical romance. Now I write erotic paranormal romance, too. I can’t sell my books in the same way because the audiences are different and they’re used to different methods. If I do an in-your-face “buy my book” to the historical crowd, they’ll resent it, but the para crowd tends to drink it in.
But I did learn one thing – I’m still on the nursery slopes here. The writer should concentrate on selling her ‘brand’ and the publisher on the individual titles. Of course that overlaps, but it’s not a bad principle to bear in mind.

By: K.S.R. Kingworth

K.S.R. Kingworth — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:58:11 +0000

Yay. I’ve got company! This might sound ridiculous, but over the last nine momths, my friend base at goodreads.com has grown to over 1900 friends. It might look like I’m only concerned about numbers as an author. Nothing could be further from the truth. There’s a difference between living in the dream world of a writer and hoping someone will take your book and put it under a publishers nose, versus knowing that you need to wear two hats as a writer: the sip-your-cup-of-cocoa-while-you-write hat and the Brave Bertha the marketer hat. It’s about relationships, not receipts, in the end, but if you don’t develop relationships with your future audience, how in the world to you expect to have readers? Here’s to Brave Bertha.

By: Jane O

Jane O — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:45:17 +0000

ABOUT and TOO shy

By: Jane O

Jane O — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:44:29 +0000

TOO shy, Too shy

By: Jane O

Jane O — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:43:51 +0000

You know, from a reader’s point of view this is very depressing. How many wonderful books are there out there that I will never hear bout because the authors don’t know how â€” or are to shy â€” to sell themselves?

By: Kevin Smokler

Kevin Smokler — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:37:37 +0000

Bravo and well said.