 Drama: August 17, 2011 Issue [#4566] |
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This week: Drama: An Unexpected Use Edited by: Fyn-elf  
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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
- Thomas Berger
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
- George Burns
You don't write because you want to say something: You write because you've got something to say.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.
- Peter Mayle
Synergy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
- W. P. Kinsella
If you wait for inspiration to write; you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
- Dan Poynter
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.
- Natalie Goldberg
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Let's face it: If you are writing to get rich; you are writing for the wrong reason! Personally, I can't not write. Cut me and I bleed ink, hug me too hard and I bruise metaphors. Sure, we'd all love to be on the best seller list, but if that happens it is more of a fluke, a serendipitous happening, or our payback karma has come back round. However, if you are going to write and self-publish, you cannot stand around and moulder waiting for the world to beat a path to your door. After your folks, grandparents, best friends, co-workers and your siblings/kids/ other relatives and anyone within reach have bought your book, then what?
If your publisher offers marketing and/or book-signings, then you have the additional opportunity to take advantage of the book-signings, press releases and reviews that follow --if you use them to your advantage. You cannot sit back or stand there uneasily expecting the world to trip over themselves getting to you.
In the self-publishing world, which is growing by leaps and bounds, the publisher will get your book published, give you the almighty ISBM and get you on your way: THEN IT IS ALL UP TO YOU!
Work out your own marketing plan while the book is in the works. Figure out a hook to get people interested in YOUR book. Sure, the publisher gets your book on Amazon and maybe into E-Books. If you are lucky, it will be included on the 'lists' that the big box stores and many indie stores order from. But then your book is one among millions. You need to make YOUR book stand out, to shine based on more than literary merit.
Figure out a hook. Come up with a game plan that fits YOUR book. Save money towards doing your own advertizing for your book. It takes more than Facebook entries. Bookmarks or business cards are excellent to hand out all the time to whomever you talk to. Signing are great but you need to engage anyone who wanders by...talk to folks, and hand them your book to hold on to and look at....once it is literally In their hands, your chances of selling them a book has just increased exponentially!
Contact indie radio stations, get a booth at a local fair or festival. Have a kids book? Try and set up story times at libraries or children's classrooms. Have the teacher or librarian let the parents know their child can get a book and how much it will cost. Host a local contest that has something to do with that new novel. Have kids compete to win a book by drawing an illustration of their own. Make a craft as a freebie give-away when someone buys book.
How well your book does depends almost solely on YOU! The more energy you put into its merchandizing, marketing and book signings, the better you will do! |
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Soulhaven  says:Thank you for this week's topic (Politics). I think the "office" politics of nit-picking characters is exactly what separates a great novel from a good one. While they may not serve an obvious function in a story, they do bring out the depth of the characters and the world. I will endeavour to investigate this in my own writing... let the hard work begin!
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