It's all about ME...
Jan. 16th, 2007 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesToday I have discovered a brand new way to indulge in authorial "me, me, look at me!" behaviour. Never mind Amazon rankings, how many of you have checked to see if your book is on any Amazon wish lists? I stumbled into this purely by accident, I swear, although I'll admit I *was* ego-surfing on Google at the time. It seems there are several people out there who have added The Syndicate to their wish lists...
Speaking of Amazon rankings, it reached the giddy heights of 22,000 or thereabouts on the US site yesterday. And a copy or two sold on the UK site as well. Maybe the pimping session on a mailing list last week did some good, or maybe it's coincidence. Nevertheless, I continue to follow the general advice of rasfc -- the best promotional tool is Writing The Next Book.
Other signs it's slowly getting out there -- not only is there someone not personally known to me who is listing it in their LibraryThing catalogue, there are people putting it on their swaps wanted list on at least one of the bookswap websites. And speaking of LibraryThing, I got a nice warm fuzzy glow when I checked my author profile page and found that someone had added one of my books that isn't even out yet, complete with "want" tag.
Cat-vacuuming? Me? Never...
Speaking of Amazon rankings, it reached the giddy heights of 22,000 or thereabouts on the US site yesterday. And a copy or two sold on the UK site as well. Maybe the pimping session on a mailing list last week did some good, or maybe it's coincidence. Nevertheless, I continue to follow the general advice of rasfc -- the best promotional tool is Writing The Next Book.
Other signs it's slowly getting out there -- not only is there someone not personally known to me who is listing it in their LibraryThing catalogue, there are people putting it on their swaps wanted list on at least one of the bookswap websites. And speaking of LibraryThing, I got a nice warm fuzzy glow when I checked my author profile page and found that someone had added one of my books that isn't even out yet, complete with "want" tag.
Cat-vacuuming? Me? Never...
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Date: 2007-01-17 07:05 am (UTC)I don't think I'd know how.... of course now I want to!
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Date: 2007-01-17 08:54 am (UTC)"wish List" "author name" amazon
or
"wish list" "book title" amazon
Your alter ego's learned tome shows up on Amazon wish lists on both the US and the UK websites. And there are several copies in LibraryThing.
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Date: 2007-01-17 02:48 pm (UTC)Mind you, I don't understand the concept of wish lists for books. If I want a book I damn well go out and get it - if the fridge had to go bare, that'd be too bad....
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Date: 2007-01-17 03:19 pm (UTC)I used to have a book a day habit, but it dropped to nil after the Kentucky Fried Memory episode, and never really recovered. So I'm now trying quite hard to make sure "books bought" is equal to or less than "books read" in any given month. It's easier to avoid tempting books if I can be sure of finding them again when I want them.