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I have to laugh. Last week on the IAG message group, Nan Hawthorne posted a response to me, saying, “You haven’t convinced me.” Now, this is a writer who sent me her book to read and review…which I did. This is an author who I then sent my review for her approval before posting…which she ignored and never acknowledged. (I never posted my review, which I wrote off as a hugh waste of time and effort to write.) Informed that she was a “featured author” along with her self-published title, Nan Hawthorne emailed me rather dismissively, as if it was just so much nothing to be featured on The Deepening. I let it pass and kept her “spot” up. With the “convince me” post, though, I’m afraid that, gee, golly, I’d had enough, and I told her so.
I’m finding too many fiction writers, especially self-published ones, have an attitude that doesn’t nick well with self-promotional opportunities. They act as if it is some sort of favor they are doing me when they promote themselves and their literary endeavors on The Deepening.
I’ve little tolerance for haughty attitudes. I’ve less tolerance for willful disregard of honest opportunity. If you are serious about promoting your novels, then you’d best take advantage of every solid opportunity available, whether it is a press release, a radio interview, or an opportunity to contribute your thoughts and perspectives along with your promotional spots on an online or print venue.
Convince you? I’ll let the enterprise itself do that. If you declaim it, go elsewhere. If you think it worthwhile, you’re welcome.
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What I said was “maybe you haven’t convinced me”. I was posing a possible alternate reason for why people were, as you felt, not using your site/blog. It was not a criticism, not even a judgment. Writing whole blog entries on misunderstood communications and then citing the author is rather unfair on that person.
Ah, here’s the exact quote in context, with my initial response that you were responding to immediately below it. If you want headers proving the legitimacy of the quote, that it is unedited, I can provide that, and, of course, it’s over on IAG groups at Yahoo!…which, by the way, is a publicly available message group, readable by anyone who cares to take the time to register with Yahoo! and then takes the time to sift through the posts, which means, Nan, that everything you and I and everyone posts is on the Net forever until the Net is no longer, and, even then, it will still be in some archive somewhere. So citing it referencing the author is just repeating a matter of public record:
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Hey, c’mon.. that’s unfair. I haven’t ignored you.
There are more review sites than Floyd’s … and his is not one of the
ones the libraries read.
I honestly don’t see how your service is the same as what I suggested…
can you explain?
It’s possible that rather than the assumption that we aren’t paying
attention, that you haven’t really convinced me.
Read on!
Nan Hawthorne click for email address
Nan Hawthorne’s Booking the Middle Ages
http://nanhawthorne.blogspot.com
Never tell an author you have no time to read!
cybercobre wrote:
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> You know, I think I’m with PODRAM’s Floyd M. Orr on this one.
>
> Both he and his website and me and mine offer you opportunities, his
> for reviews, mine for promoting your work, your events, your products.
> Both of us seem to be ignored and dismissed to the point that it
> “feels” like a slap in the face, even though I realize it isn’t meant
> at all that way. It’s just oversight.
>
> That’s fine. But then you come up with some similar scheme, which
> makes me begin to wonder. What are we? Chopped liver?
>
> When someone offers you, free of charge, (and everyone here was
> invited into TD at the onset of my beginning to contribute here) an
> opportunity, and you don’t use it as intended — in TD’s case, logging
> in to promote your events, your titles, your news, or in PODRAM’S
> case, submitting your POD book for review — then you turn around and
> scheme to do something similar, I begin to wonder why.
>
> Got any insights?
>
> DLKeur, The Deepening
> http://www.thedeepening.com/
As one who has spent blood getting a novel up to publishing standard, paying for a professional assessment from an agency who are publishers’ editors and scouts for UK agents and getting valuable advice from a top agent through them, (This is the UK system and UK agents and publishers welcome a report from these agencies.)I can understand why people will self publish. The Mountainous slope to publication grows steeper and more slippery every day. But self publication usually means your book is sidelined by the shops and sneered at by writers assocs.
No writer can afford to turn down promotion. The great and famous know this. We newer novelists need to learn it too!
I am new to the writing game. But I say game due to
the fact that I can see that self-publish is the way
to go. Actually, if you have nothing to say or your
subject and story isn’t interesting or hold some
attention, it matters none which way you go.
After writing three stories and one published with
1 in the text department and 1 in pre-production,
I have many offers to do it yourself game. I may take
one of them up on it for my fourth story I started this week. Your name in my opinion also is not worthy
unless your someone really important and has been promoted by one of the big boys and made them alot of
money for along time, otherwise, what I have learned is this: Grap every free line, star, bullet, newsline,
quote, press, and website you can get on. Everyday,
find one to promote that book. Spend little on only
those worthy sites who you feel comfortable with and
will indeed help promote your book. Otherwise, get in
the bread line, and wait for one of the reject letters
from the big boy who may get your book in B&N which
again means how much in revenue that goes to you and
your bank.
SK Covey