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[cblj_backup]

The main reason Amanda Hocking gave for going pro-publisher after making a zillion dollars as a selfpub author is that she was tired of doing her own publicity. For real, selling oneself is hard.

I'm still working on marketing research but I'm also realising I should be managing my existing online assets with slightly more aggression. I feel somewhat ridiculous about it, like I'm pretending at being a Real Author, but it's reached the point where entropy no longer smooths over the chaos on its own. I keep a clippings file, but that's about it, so today I got on LibraryThing and added tags and cover images to my books there. Is anyone running a Sam's Cafe group on LibraryThing? Imma fire one up, if not, but I didn't want to supplant anything already in place.

And just in case anyone wasn't aware, you can follow my (very rare) tweets at ouija_sam on Twitter. I'm on Google Plus under Sam Starbuck, and technically I'm on Facebook but I never log into Facebook. There is a Sam's Cafe group there, however.

My hand to god I will stop talking publicity soon. I'm just incapable of processing things silently when I have the internet to talk to.

Comments

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, I know in some sense I am a Real Author, but there's also always that comparison to writers who make a living at it, or who have propub contracts. I don't even want one, and I know propub is not any more legitimate than good selfpub, but it's so new the old habits are still there :)

The story itself came out of that Dylan song, which never fails to astound me. It's one of the few of his I really truly love.

[canaana.livejournal.com]

There are so few writers who have ever made a living at it. Don't ever let that be your standard. Most of the propub people only ever manage to do it as a sideline. :-)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

And see, intellectually, I know that! But I still hold them up in comparison.

[canaana.livejournal.com]

It's your neurosis, I guess. ;)