Comments on: Don’t Buy My Book http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/ A mutual support group for SF/F Novelists Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:39:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: cindy http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6322 cindy Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:22:42 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6322 having said that. am so adding this trilogy to my wishlist. yes! i want to read a good fantasy! having said that. am so adding this trilogy to
my wishlist. yes! i want to read a good fantasy!

]]> By: S.C. Butler http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6309 S.C. Butler Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:48:38 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6309 Cindy - When it comes to self-promotion, you can never be too crass. You have to do the hustle 24/7. I tell all my friends, "A true friend buys my book, but only a martyr reads it." Cindy – When it comes to self-promotion, you can never be too crass. You have to do the hustle 24/7. I tell all my friends, “A true friend buys my book, but only a martyr reads it.”

]]> By: cindy http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6308 cindy Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:26:24 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6308 ha! my debut is out the same day. i'm sending a mass email out to all my contacts tomorrow. i'm almost tempted to write "you don't have to READ it, just BUY it". too crass? i've already been bitten. ha! my debut is out the same day.
i’m sending a mass email out to all my contacts tomorrow.
i’m almost tempted to write “you don’t have to READ it,
just BUY it”. too crass?

i’ve already been bitten.

]]> By: Adam Heine http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6248 Adam Heine Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:39:58 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6248 <i>"It was necromancy."</i> Nice. “It was necromancy.”

Nice.

]]> By: S.C. Butler http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6247 S.C. Butler Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:26:05 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6247 Dave - Alas, I fear I'm to slow a writer to ever be addictive. Ju - Not sure I can help you with the shelf, and Diana's already said it all when it comes to feeding the Amazon rankings habit. Dave – Alas, I fear I’m to slow a writer to ever be addictive.

Ju – Not sure I can help you with the shelf, and Diana’s already said it all when it comes to feeding the Amazon rankings habit.

]]> By: Diana Pharaoh Francis http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6246 Diana Pharaoh Francis Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:36:19 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6246 Here Ju, let me help feed your habit: http://www.salesrankexpress.com/ Here Ju, let me help feed your habit: http://www.salesrankexpress.com/

]]> By: Ju Honisch http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6245 Ju Honisch Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:47:49 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6245 Oh dear. I am still in the "look up Amazon ratings" phase. Just sold my second novel. I must disappoint you, though. I am quite likely to buy your book. Though, mind you, a new shelf would be more urgent. Oh dear. I am still in the “look up Amazon ratings” phase. Just sold my second novel.

I must disappoint you, though. I am quite likely to buy your book. Though, mind you, a new shelf would be more urgent.

]]> By: NewGuyDave http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6244 NewGuyDave Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:24:41 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/04/15/dont-buy-my-book/#comment-6244 Would it help you to think of each sale as a reader hooked on a new drug only you can supply? In that case, your street cred will be totally ruined if you don't push out some more snuff for your new addicts. Better get to work, or a couple of bruisers will be comin' for ya. Alternately, this isn't one of those economics experiments where you can create a demand and hold back supply to drive up price, so you might as well keep pushing the demand curve forward and increasing the supply to match. Cheers, D. P.S. I hope some of that made sense, because my brain is befuddled at the moment with how to fix my ending... Would it help you to think of each sale as a reader hooked on a new drug only you can supply? In that case, your street cred will be totally ruined if you don’t push out some more snuff for your new addicts. Better get to work, or a couple of bruisers will be comin’ for ya.

Alternately, this isn’t one of those economics experiments where you can create a demand and hold back supply to drive up price, so you might as well keep pushing the demand curve forward and increasing the supply to match.

Cheers,
D.

P.S. I hope some of that made sense, because my brain is befuddled at the moment with how to fix my ending…

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