tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054176333123768144.post3391470066917270313..comments2024-02-29T00:47:55.041-08:00Comments on Megan Bostic's Creative Chaos: The SellMegan Bostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811715491350987530noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054176333123768144.post-61458596752812405822010-03-12T15:07:37.506-08:002010-03-12T15:07:37.506-08:00I love your video reviews. I think you could make...I love your video reviews. I think you could make money doing those alone. Sure, E-mail me a mailing address to wwallygatorr@hotmail.com and I will send you an autograpghed copy.<br /><br />Anyone one else out there seeing my E-mail adress (it's on my website too) go ahead and send me trash talk. I love it. No viruses please, I practice safe computer. I have a big clear bag over my monitor.Walter Knighthttp://www.waltknight.yolasite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054176333123768144.post-73907532925251290472010-03-12T13:47:06.839-08:002010-03-12T13:47:06.839-08:00You want to send me your book?You want to send me your book?Megan Bostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08811715491350987530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054176333123768144.post-807614527170243552010-03-12T12:50:55.317-08:002010-03-12T12:50:55.317-08:00In order to be able to put yourself out there and ...In order to be able to put yourself out there and be able to market your book, you have to have the confidence to love your book. Your friends will be paying money to read your book. You will have to go into a newspaper office and look the editor in the eye and say your book is worth doing an article in his / her newspaper.<br /><br />I've done one local neswpaper interview, have one more sceduled, and am trying to arrange another at a larger paper. You have to arrange these yourself. It won't been done for you. And, you are a nuisence to these people if you haven't written something really special. <br /><br />It's tough if you don't have a really outgoing personality. If an author is the type who just wants to stay at home with their cat, they will not make it.<br /><br />My gimmick to to give me confidence and establish my crediability? I went out and got a big time review by sending out multiple requests online. Famous science fiction author Piers Anthony have me a good review in his online January 2010 newsletter. Also, I kept X rated language and content out of my book. Well, I at least kept the swearing down. It's hard enough to go out there and sell your bookwithout having to explain that. Can you immagine what it is like for some new author to explain in public why they wrote X-rated material? Immagine taking another violent vampire book to a neewspaper editor.<br /><br />I don't have a major publisher (big dog) in my pocket, and I am not going to win a literary contest, so I tried to make my books special by writing a 12 book series. It's hard to ignore a project that large. But even if you have a large publisher, Barnes & Noble will still not automatically put your book on their shelves. You still have to write something that has quality, and put yourself out there in front of everyone and say you wrote something worth buying and better than what Hilary wrote.<br /><br />And I won't even start about being psycho-analized by amature shrinks wondering how much of yourself you put into your book lol. So, I did quite a rammble there, but that is what I am experiencing now as my novel series attempts lift off.<br /><br />If I could only get the Angsty Writer to do a vidoe book review of America's Galact Foreign Legion, I just might make it into orbit. <br /><br />And that is the last issue. Your promotion effort has to be shameless. Try to do that without driving your friends nuts because all you want to talk about is your book. They will roll their eyes and shy away. I have to set aside quiet time for myself to be real again.<br /><br />This Sunday I'm taking the wife to the casino in Pendleton, Oregan, for a sleepover If I mention my book even once she will kill me and feed my body to the coyotes.Walter Knighthttp://www.waltknight.yolasite.comnoreply@blogger.com