tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post1718619030807721702..comments2023-11-03T05:49:10.841-04:00Comments on Storytelling Rules: Where Are We Going?Maureen McGowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-78494774746496960072011-03-03T21:32:33.093-05:002011-03-03T21:32:33.093-05:00Great post, Stephanie. A sex tape is a great promo...Great post, Stephanie. A sex tape is a great promotiomal idea, maybe some shop lifting, a little dui and then a lot of drug fueled ranting and we have the promo thing covered.<br /><br />And then we can write a book about a fictional celebrity..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-57362666108062458652011-03-03T19:53:36.279-05:002011-03-03T19:53:36.279-05:00Wait a minute wait a minute... you mean I can have...Wait a minute wait a minute... you mean I can have sex and advertise????<br /><br /><br />Why did I bother with that Goodreads ad?Stephanie Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448686465587131952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-45701131661160762172011-03-03T16:30:51.035-05:002011-03-03T16:30:51.035-05:00Mwa ha ha!Mwa ha ha!Maureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-90936625517000721472011-03-03T16:00:08.877-05:002011-03-03T16:00:08.877-05:00Think of the things we could apply this to! I'...Think of the things we could apply this to! I'm having a total Dr. Evil moment!Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803986849921870941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-54824380118970364722011-03-03T15:44:29.913-05:002011-03-03T15:44:29.913-05:00Eileen! I think we both have a great new strategy....Eileen! I think we both have a great new strategy. Buy the book or we'll burn your eyes....Maureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-43711045267699206272011-03-03T15:25:14.680-05:002011-03-03T15:25:14.680-05:00OMG! Sex tape! What a great idea! I wonder if peop...OMG! Sex tape! What a great idea! I wonder if people would offer to buy my book to have me NOT release one. LOL.Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803986849921870941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-66138645673995424142011-03-03T14:46:26.257-05:002011-03-03T14:46:26.257-05:00It is a nerve-wracking time to be sure. The editor...It is a nerve-wracking time to be sure. The editor thing is interesting... (need to go read Jane's post) In some ways, isn't that what all the imprints with the big publishers used to be? (In the literary world, anyway?) The best, most successful editors had an imprint named after him/her. Maybe that will move to commercial fiction, too. I think it's still prevalent in both literary and children's publishing, but to be honest, I don't know whether actual readers know the difference... I don't remember ever paying attention to who published a book, never mind who edited it, until I was pursuing publication myself. <br /><br />But some kind of filtering system will emerge. I cannot believe that it'll be left up to luck or whoever does the most obnoxious promoting or releases a sex tape. **Maureen notes awesome promo idea** **wink**. I really don't. <br /><br />I do wish I knew more about what that YA author who got 3 self-published books on the USA Today list did... Now that I'm emerging from the writing cave, I might do some investigating to find out. (And probably will buy one of the books, helping to keep her on the list for another week... Some of it is a self-fulfilling prophecy... Once a book is selling well, more people hear about it and buy out of curiosity if nothing else. But it's how to get that initial notice without the backing of a publisher that baffles me.Maureen McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494408580378817045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-57554338033371564592011-03-03T14:19:40.902-05:002011-03-03T14:19:40.902-05:00It's fascinating, if nerve-wracking, to watch....It's fascinating, if nerve-wracking, to watch. An author friend of mine is encouraging me to get some things up as e-books. She tells me she wrote an erotic novella, did very little to promote it and made $2000 off it the first month it was up. $2000 that she doesn't have to share with anyone. It's tempting.<br /><br />Of course, as slow as I am, by the time I do that, the whole thing will be so darn glutted, no one will be making any money whatsoever.Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803986849921870941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-36853895133541202342011-03-03T13:48:33.297-05:002011-03-03T13:48:33.297-05:00I don't know steph. I'm so polly anna that...I don't know steph. I'm so polly anna that I want to believe that publishers KNOW what they're doing, but it's hard to convince myself of that when they do things like limit the number of times an e-book can be checked out of a library. AND then Random House is now joining agency pricing for e-books.<br /><br />And part of me beleives that the uproar of agency pricing is a totally valid uproar but made by a very few. Perhaps the majority of e-book readers don't care that the ebook is the same price as a paper copy - in which case, I think publishers are just trying to make as much money as they can before things tip the other way and publishers are forced to change thier pricing. I've heard some people on blogs etc...say they've totally boycotted traditional publishers in favor of small press who don't do these things and 'don't alienate the reader" - and that's great, totally well and good, but as long as the mjority of books I want to read are being published by traditional publishers - I'm locked in.<br /><br />I don't have an e-reader and might not cave until this summer. And being with Harlequin I do beleive they're on top of this curve (though they are punishing thier AUTHORS who sell well through ebooks 0 at Harlequin we get the same percentage of royalities on ebooks as we do paper books but the ebooks are often heavily discounted and already some authors - Courtney Milan being the most eloquent and vocal - are seeing thier ebook numbers match or top thier print numbers and so they're making less. <br /><br />Don't know, really. don't know how this is going to pan out...Molly O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15171236688541657736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29864506.post-6079420809315732652011-03-03T09:49:36.877-05:002011-03-03T09:49:36.877-05:00Steph, I've been wondering this myself. For t...Steph, I've been wondering this myself. For the first time, my bestselling books on Amazon have all been the Kindle version. <br /><br />I put up five books that I'd gotten the rights back to from Dorchester and they have been steadily increasing in sales. But they haven't paid for the cost of the cover art yet. But they will. <br /><br />I still have five old Kensington books (so old I don't have computer files on them), but I haven't put them up yet because honestly, they would need rewriting and I don't have time. <br /><br />I think it's exciting. I love my Kindle. But I still buy my favorite authors in hardback. I no longer buy any paperbacks, other than cookbooks or exercise/diet/nutrition books.Karen Whiddonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10669628257477406166noreply@blogger.com