Online book trailers

March 13th 2007 at 6:39 am

So here’s a question. Here’s a production company that creates video ads for books. Here is a list of some of the book trailers they’ve done.
So would any of these trailers convince you to buy one of these books?
Looking at the views of each trailer on YouTube most of them range from several hundred to […]

Author/Critic response FAQ

January 4th 2007 at 1:16 am

You are an author. You’ve spent years and years scribbling, gathering rejections, getting comments from family members (it was nice when it was a hobby, but now its obsessive). Then finally your genius is recognized, someone publishes your work. The stamp of approval has been rendered. Now it’s time for accolades and money and groupies […]

How do people find out about books?

December 11th 2006 at 2:31 pm

David Louis Edelman put together a few posts about how people found books to read, and after counting up all the comments has his results here (the top three are: liked a previous book, was recommended the book, liked the package).
But David asks:
But what of the majority of science fiction and fantasy consumers that have […]

Booksigning/Reading

June 14th 2006 at 1:55 pm

By the way, if you’re a Cincy-area reader, I will be at Joseph-Beth’s tomorrow to sign copies of Crystal Rain and whatever else you might have. Please drop by and say hi!
Calendar details.

On Promotion

May 23rd 2006 at 2:21 pm

J.A Konrath crunches hours and percentages and money spent and comes up with some formulas on how best to spend your promotion time.

The Meeting Place

April 29th 2006 at 7:27 pm

Hung out at the Lima, Ohio coffee shop ‘The Meeting Place’ to sign books and promote Crystal Rain today from 1-4. It was a great, sunny day, so we didn’t have much traffic, but a handful of books were sold, and The Meeting Place does sell books out of a set of shelves in the […]

Towards A Theory of PR

March 2nd 2006 at 4:33 pm

This has been in my blog queue for a few days:
Justine Larbalestier has a post about making mistakes while trying to engage in self promotion.
Accusations of being too self promotery make me a bit jittery. Promoting your books is part of a writer’s job. If no one knows the book exists how is it going […]

Another Detail On Amazon’s Connect Program

February 28th 2006 at 9:47 am

I just checked my February stats, and over 250 people visited this site as a result of clicking through an Amazon.com link from my ‘Connect’ page. Most them clicked back out of my site via the Crystal Rain ‘order now’ page. This made Amazon a very large funneler of traffic to my website, one of […]

Booksignings?

January 31st 2006 at 3:11 pm

Someone nicely asked me by email about what kind of book touring I’d be doing. On the back of my ARCs it says ‘regional book tours’ which I think any of you can decode as ‘anywhere the author is willing to drive within half a day or so to and back from.’
This is […]

Paragaea Website

January 25th 2006 at 3:56 pm

Chris Roberson, awesome fellow writer, has upped the ante with book websites with Paragaea: A Planetary Romance. You can read the prequel to the current book free by visiting that website, as well as poke around. Neat website.

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