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- From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Post-publication Woes
- Message-ID: <14610@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 22:45:41 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- Dipak Basu asks what proportion of time writers spend between writing and
- promoting their work...depends.
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- In the mass market, author promotion is largely beside the point. I manage to
- get my books reviewed in the local Vancouver papers, which otherwise wouldn't
- bother with a paperback original; but reviews have little or no influence on
- the sales of most mass-market titles.
-
- With hardback fiction, the publisher may ship the author across the country, to
- be taken in hand by a succession of PR folks and dropped into various talk
- shows on radio and TV. This is cheaper than a couple of full-page ads in the NY
- Times Book Review. I've done only one tour, many years ago. Never again, if I
- can avoid it.
-
- But by all means get to know local booksellers, let them know your book is out,
- and be ready to cooperate if they ask you to come in for a signing. And
- cultivate your local librarians as well! They are wonderful people with not
- enough money in their budgets for everyone, so they might as well get to know
- you and make you a spending priority. :)
-