Oh, finally! Someone else who feels the same way I do about promotion.
I've been feeling really behind the curve lately, watching all the kids get freaky about their Pub Date (as if the actual day means a thing--unless they're Harry Potter, books slide out there over a period of weeks, not on a single day), and go on about this promo op and that bookmark and this or that signing and on and on. They're working like mad to promote their books, with the clear assumption that it's required and, more to the point, effective. It's been giving me a complex.
I mean, back in the day, she said, looking around for her wheelchair (must be somewhere between the saddle racks and the manure cart), we were taught that signings and the like make an author feel good and keep the author's family off his case, but the only real, effective promotion is what you've described. Well, that and a good website, regularly updated, and a blog that builds a following.
So it's still true? I'm not insane for opting out of the self-promo game?
I can't tell you how much better that makes me feel.
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Date: 2008-02-21 11:14 pm (UTC)I've been feeling really behind the curve lately, watching all the kids get freaky about their Pub Date (as if the actual day means a thing--unless they're Harry Potter, books slide out there over a period of weeks, not on a single day), and go on about this promo op and that bookmark and this or that signing and on and on. They're working like mad to promote their books, with the clear assumption that it's required and, more to the point, effective. It's been giving me a complex.
I mean, back in the day, she said, looking around for her wheelchair (must be somewhere between the saddle racks and the manure cart), we were taught that signings and the like make an author feel good and keep the author's family off his case, but the only real, effective promotion is what you've described. Well, that and a good website, regularly updated, and a blog that builds a following.
So it's still true? I'm not insane for opting out of the self-promo game?
I can't tell you how much better that makes me feel.