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Dennis Collins
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1485
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 - 12:18 pm: |   |
I thought it might be interesting to get varying ideas on how we perceive the effectiveness of different approaches to promoting our work.
I got this from Dan Poynter this morning:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/story.jsp?story=616312 |
F.E. Mazur
Awareness Member
Post Number:
34
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 05:09 am: | |
I concur with what's in Poynter's piece, but with the addition that effective word-of-mouth comes from readers who are mostly strangers to the authors. It's an event in itself to be at a dinner or party and listen to someone remark on a book they've recently read. When such remarks are really impressive—by that I mean the speaker does a helluva job providing an understanding to others what the book is about—I often remember to jot down the title when I return home, if I hadn't previously heard of the book. With others less described, they are instantly recalled when I am at a bookstore and see them displayed. In Kentucky on the PBS station, there is a group who gathers around a table each week and discusses a book by a Kentucky author. I've watched the program a few times, but the comments from around the table are blah, and I've never once been encouraged to pick up one of the books because of what I heard from this group. There is never any excitement in their voices. But at unstaged events, someone recommending a book can really get going and convey some of the vibrancy that is in the book itself. Good stories with involved characters are what readers are after. Most of any type of promotion is intended just to get a few readers to take a look and determine if the story is worthwhile and are the characters a bit new and interesting. |
Joyce Scarbrough
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575
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 05:51 am: | |
Thanks for the wonderful reminder that we should all be writing to excite readers and not to impress reviewers. Kind of makes me want to cross-stitch it on a sampler for my wall! 
Toyce
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Dennis Collins
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1558
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 11, 2005 - 06:13 pm: | |
Has anyone ever put their entire press kit on a CD? It would have to be set up like a website with several pages. Anybody know? |
D.R. Bennett
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285
Registered: 05-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 11, 2005 - 08:08 pm: | |
That's not a bad idea Dennis. Actually, you can!
You would have to save your files to a read/write CD.
Then, have it mastered by someone who does CD ROMs.
Basically, yes, it would be a 'web site' on CD ROM. Very possible.
Yet, you would have to do some research on companies who specialize
in this process. Then again, I could be full o' crap.
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