Comments on: When Thinking Out-of-the-Box, Actually Leave The Box http://booksquare.com/when-thinking-out-of-the-box-actually-leave-the-box/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 21 May 2012 06:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joan Kelly http://booksquare.com/when-thinking-out-of-the-box-actually-leave-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-123909 Joan Kelly Tue, 23 May 2006 21:59:11 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/05/22/1969/#comment-123909 Sadly, BS, your wonderings are probably way more exotic than my work wardrobe will ever be. Although what I lack in sex worker style, I make up for with a lot of heart. Sadly, BS, your wonderings are probably way more exotic than my work wardrobe will ever be. Although what I lack in sex worker style, I make up for with a lot of heart.

]]> By: Jennifer Dunne http://booksquare.com/when-thinking-out-of-the-box-actually-leave-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-123860 Jennifer Dunne Mon, 22 May 2006 20:28:26 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/05/22/1969/#comment-123860 Huh. Her article can be summed up as "promote your fiction by making it more like non-fiction." Then she ends by reminding people to take advantage of the opportunities they have which real non-fiction writers don't. Sounds like a case of "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." Huh. Her article can be summed up as “promote your fiction by making it more like non-fiction.” Then she ends by reminding people to take advantage of the opportunities they have which real non-fiction writers don’t.

Sounds like a case of “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

]]> By: Booksquare http://booksquare.com/when-thinking-out-of-the-box-actually-leave-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-123858 Booksquare Mon, 22 May 2006 19:02:35 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/05/22/1969/#comment-123858 Only during the high season. Otherwise, it's quite barren. Only during the high season. Otherwise, it’s quite barren.

]]> By: David Thayer http://booksquare.com/when-thinking-out-of-the-box-actually-leave-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-123857 David Thayer Mon, 22 May 2006 18:42:39 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/05/22/1969/#comment-123857 I think the guy who wrote The Manchurian Candidate wandered around the Gobi Desert dressed as himself. I don't know if the Gobi qualifies as a "busy resort." I think the guy who wrote The Manchurian Candidate wandered around the Gobi Desert dressed as himself. I don’t know if the Gobi qualifies as a “busy resort.”

]]> By: Booksquare http://booksquare.com/when-thinking-out-of-the-box-actually-leave-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-123856 Booksquare Mon, 22 May 2006 18:30:41 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/05/22/1969/#comment-123856 Though I am not one for dressing up as anything, one wonders, Joan, about your potential costumes? Sorry, couldn't resist... Though I am not one for dressing up as anything, one wonders, Joan, about your potential costumes? Sorry, couldn’t resist…

]]> By: Joan Kelly http://booksquare.com/when-thinking-out-of-the-box-actually-leave-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-123855 Joan Kelly Mon, 22 May 2006 18:15:03 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/05/22/1969/#comment-123855 "Another idea is to walk around a busy resort town dressed as a character from your novel..." I want to know what the idea was before the above stated 'nother one, but I am too busy to read the whole article from that publicity guru. Too busy, that is, not-being-able-to-touch the idea of what amounts to hiring myself part time as the person in the mouse suit at Chucky Cheese, and then taking it global. -Joan who woke up bitchy this morning apparently. “Another idea is to walk around a busy resort town dressed as a character from your novel…”

I want to know what the idea was before the above stated ‘nother one, but I am too busy to read the whole article from that publicity guru. Too busy, that is, not-being-able-to-touch the idea of what amounts to hiring myself part time as the person in the mouse suit at Chucky Cheese, and then taking it global.

-Joan
who woke up bitchy this morning apparently.

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