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<blockquote data-quote="Ravenwind" data-source="post: 6660938" data-attributes="member: 6785772"><p><em>Someone's</em> got to interpret those recipes. And there's probably some joke somewhere about deconstructionism vs. molecular cooking. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Precisely. He got curated, by someone who had a patron, and who had diligence and the right platform. Curation is pretty much the service that reviewers and bloggers offer these days. For instance, I've had some really nice reviews by bloggers, but that only goes as far as their audience does. My publicist had a request to put an excerpt of 2000 words in that monthly, but that hasn't run yet; and likewise, when I approached a major RPG online magazine about an excerpt, they offered me that and a podcast appearance. (That was tentatively slated for later this month, but I don't know if that's happening at this point.)</p><p></p><p>I have no control over how much of the book Amazon puts up for free, to be honest. They show a flat percentage of the book for free, and that's. . . well, all controlled by them. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Peddling my wares is definitely a fascinating process, and, as my husband points out, probably harder in most respects than the writing was for me. I'm retiring by nature, and I detest shilling. There are people out there who are <em>made</em> for the schmoozing, and they do a great job of it, and that's why they go into marketing and make the big bucks doing that sort of thing!</p><p></p><p>My life-long approach was that if I had something of quality, people would surely recognize that on their own. And, honestly, people have. I wrote a fanfic a few years back that got me 25,000 emails before I switched that account to a different email, simply so I could put that behind me and get on with writing something that was my own intellectual property. Many of those readers from across the world have picked up my books, or added themselves to my Facebook feed. My mistake was not putting up the Facebook at the height of the fic and keeping that rolling forward, but at the time, I was drowning under emails, and couldn't respond to them all. Adding a Facebook to that seemed. . . a terrifying sure way <em>never to write again</em>, hah.</p><p></p><p>So, yeah. There's a fine line, somewhere, between blatant shilling and . . . necessary self-promotion. And I have no sense of where that fine line is, because 'necessary self-promotion,' to me, feels like 'blatant self-aggrandizement.' <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> Possibly involving a red feather boa.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ravenwind, post: 6660938, member: 6785772"] [I]Someone's[/I] got to interpret those recipes. And there's probably some joke somewhere about deconstructionism vs. molecular cooking. ;) Precisely. He got curated, by someone who had a patron, and who had diligence and the right platform. Curation is pretty much the service that reviewers and bloggers offer these days. For instance, I've had some really nice reviews by bloggers, but that only goes as far as their audience does. My publicist had a request to put an excerpt of 2000 words in that monthly, but that hasn't run yet; and likewise, when I approached a major RPG online magazine about an excerpt, they offered me that and a podcast appearance. (That was tentatively slated for later this month, but I don't know if that's happening at this point.) I have no control over how much of the book Amazon puts up for free, to be honest. They show a flat percentage of the book for free, and that's. . . well, all controlled by them. Peddling my wares is definitely a fascinating process, and, as my husband points out, probably harder in most respects than the writing was for me. I'm retiring by nature, and I detest shilling. There are people out there who are [I]made[/I] for the schmoozing, and they do a great job of it, and that's why they go into marketing and make the big bucks doing that sort of thing! My life-long approach was that if I had something of quality, people would surely recognize that on their own. And, honestly, people have. I wrote a fanfic a few years back that got me 25,000 emails before I switched that account to a different email, simply so I could put that behind me and get on with writing something that was my own intellectual property. Many of those readers from across the world have picked up my books, or added themselves to my Facebook feed. My mistake was not putting up the Facebook at the height of the fic and keeping that rolling forward, but at the time, I was drowning under emails, and couldn't respond to them all. Adding a Facebook to that seemed. . . a terrifying sure way [I]never to write again[/I], hah. So, yeah. There's a fine line, somewhere, between blatant shilling and . . . necessary self-promotion. And I have no sense of where that fine line is, because 'necessary self-promotion,' to me, feels like 'blatant self-aggrandizement.' :P Possibly involving a red feather boa. [/QUOTE]
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