Comments on: Eaten Alive http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2010/02/19/eaten-alive/ The Passion of a Thousand Burning Suns Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Xandra http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2010/02/19/eaten-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-45122 Xandra Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:49:08 +0000 http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/?p=311#comment-45122 I know what you mean. It's so easy to get lost in the shuffle--once you fall off a New Releases page then it's like sinking into a black hole. Not complaining--it is what it is--but some days it feels like a whole 'nother job. I know what you mean. It’s so easy to get lost in the shuffle–once you fall off a New Releases page then it’s like sinking into a black hole. Not complaining–it is what it is–but some days it feels like a whole ‘nother job.

]]> By: Roxy Harte http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/2010/02/19/eaten-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-45098 Roxy Harte Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:50:01 +0000 http://www.xandragregory.com/blog/?p=311#comment-45098 It should be every new author's mantra that "PROMO WILL EAT ME ALIVE." because to a certain extent, no one is going to do the work of helping you get noticed unless you are willing to give up every free minute to do it yourself. Now, don't get me wrong...I agree with what you said... I don't think any author should spend HOURS every day going to chat groups and agreeing with every other person't random thought, "I love Pepsi," "Oh! Me too!" "Me too." "No way, I'm a Coke girl." (You know you've been on THAT chat link...) And by the way, the way to MY HEART is with a large Coke from McDonalds... Chat links can get your name known, but if you spend the best part of the morning chatting, when are you supposed to write? I drew the line in the online cyber-dirt and only chat where I know I am going to make friends who might share my interests and find me charming...and hopefully buy a book...but if they don't buy a book that's okay too because I'm making friendships with people I actually have something in common with. Maybe it's knitting, or crafting...for me its kink, gardening, savetheworldoneclickatatime, rockclimbing sites...and not every day. I limit myself to thirty to forty minutes. Am I losing sales by not trolling every reader, writer, editor site? Lord knows we are an incestuous bunch. Most definitely. But I also know that the year I trolled those sites, I wrote 3 books. Last year, I avoided those sites like the plague and wrote 12 books. The point is to get your name out there in a way that works for you... How about advertising? Personally I love fridge magnets...and now I own a stainless steal fridge... I'm thinking bookmarks... Maybe buying some space on one of those reader, writer, editor blogs and run an ad of my latest release... Obviously, I don't have the answers... I just know that if I don't spread my name around no one is going to do it for me... It should be every new author’s mantra that “PROMO WILL EAT ME ALIVE.” because to a certain extent, no one is going to do the work of helping you get noticed unless you are willing to give up every free minute to do it yourself.

Now, don’t get me wrong…I agree with what you said…

I don’t think any author should spend HOURS every day going to chat groups and agreeing with every other person’t random thought, “I love Pepsi,”
“Oh! Me too!”
“Me too.”
“No way, I’m a Coke girl.”
(You know you’ve been on THAT chat link…)
And by the way, the way to MY HEART is with a large Coke from McDonalds…

Chat links can get your name known, but if you spend the best part of the morning chatting, when are you supposed to write?

I drew the line in the online cyber-dirt and only chat where I know I am going to make friends who might share my interests and find me charming…and hopefully buy a book…but if they don’t buy a book that’s okay too because I’m making friendships with people I actually have something in common with. Maybe it’s knitting, or crafting…for me its kink, gardening, savetheworldoneclickatatime, rockclimbing sites…and not every day. I limit myself to thirty to forty minutes.

Am I losing sales by not trolling every reader, writer, editor site? Lord knows we are an incestuous bunch. Most definitely. But I also know that the year I trolled those sites, I wrote 3 books. Last year, I avoided those sites like the plague and wrote 12 books.

The point is to get your name out there in a way that works for you…

How about advertising?

Personally I love fridge magnets…and now I own a stainless steal fridge…
I’m thinking bookmarks…
Maybe buying some space on one of those reader, writer, editor blogs and run an ad of my latest release…

Obviously, I don’t have the answers…
I just know that if I don’t spread my name around no one is going to do it for me…

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