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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.

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[monkeypumpkin.livejournal.com]

I am kinda famous on the internet under my real name, and when i figured out that was happening, I, uh, got an intern. For reals. I put out an ad for an unpaid intern and got like twenty candidates and now I always have a college kid pushing stuff for me. I still need to figure out my media strategy and tell the kid what to do, but I don't have to actually do it. Maybe you could do that?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I've thought about it :D The problem really isn't lack of time, for me, as much as it is that these are new skills -- there's both learning the skill and learning to be unashamed about stuff like publicity. Plus while I try not to be, I am something of a control freak and I'm not sure I could back down enough to trust someone else to represent my brand.

I am seriously, seriously considering asking the cafe for help if I ever have to move my archive again, though :D