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- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Path: sparky!uunet!scorn!dipakb
- From: dipakb@sco.COM (Dipak Basu)
- Subject: Post-publication Woes
- Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 19:36:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.193633.24744@sco.com>
- Sender: news@sco.com (News admin)
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- I attended the Bay Area Writers' Workshop last Saturday and found a
- surprising amount of attention focussed on promotion of a
- book by its author, after it had been selected for publication.
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- Publishers and bookstore owners agreed that the selection and promotion
- of a book by them was in direct proportion to the amount of effort its
- author put in. This included research into applicable regions where the
- book would be popular, preparing lists of relevant bookstores, doing
- literary readings around the country, preparing summaries of the book,
- etc. There didn't seem to be a difference here whether the author had an
- agent or not.
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- And I thought the trials of the writer ended after the tortuous manuscript
- submission process! Do you successful authors agree?
- What is the ratio of time you spend between writing and promoting?
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- Dipak.
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