book pimping the modern way

[julesjones]

Gacked from Making Light: The New Yorker's take on the new paradigm of book marketing by authors. There's a high level beverage alert on this one, especially for those of you who are publsihed authors. :-)

Comments

[sheenaghpugh]

That is painfully funny.

Or possibly funnily painful. I think a lot of authors are pretty miserable about the new requirement to be salesmen, a job most are not especially well fitted for. And though I love doing the online stuff, it could easily take over from yr actual writing...

[julesjones]

I won't do the online stuff unless it's stuff I would do anyway, because yes, it can very easily take over from yr actual writing. I did try MySpace for a bit because I had been asked to by readers, but abandoned it on the grounds that I am not using that awful interface. My LJ is written with a view to entertaining myself and my friends and acquaintances -- if it entertains others as well, that is pleasing, but it's a fringe benefit.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Except for the fact that the income generated is barely enough for one much less two I would see this as a huge opportunity for someone to take over the promotion side from an author. But then, isn't that what a publishing house is supposed to be doing? You know, flogging books to potential buyers.

Still that could make for a nice SF story. Scandal erupts as it is discovered that an author has been employing a 'ghost' blogger.

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

With the exception of the scandal, that story has already been written by Mike Resnick. The batteries on my cybook have just run out, so I can't look up the title, though.

ETA: The title is Frankie the Spook.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Why is it that whenever I am thinking that I'm original I'm less likely to be so? Ah well, it was not like I already started writing it.