04-28-2011, 08:10 PM | #91 | |
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You may well be right about his sex-negative beliefs showing through. I'd have to reread his work to be sure, and I'm just not going to do that. I still maintain that it's relatively easy for an author to hide his or her true nature, or beliefs if that's what they want to do. |
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I apologize, again, I know this is off topic (and possibly approaching a violation of MR topic rules) but I wonder if I misunderstood something here:
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Thanks for telling me. So, if I wanted to get in touch with those companies, how should I go about it?
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Oh! And here I was, expecting you were going to agree with me that it was closed minded!
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There are those who argue that lack of homosexual & bisexual characters is, itself, a sign of homophobia; I don't go that far. |
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04-28-2011, 08:39 PM | #97 | |
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Any other points I've challenged were things I've tried before, and which haven't worked in my experience. I've tried to explain my position, as opposed to blindly dismissing that which I did not want to hear. Not surprisingly, I find my own comments being dismissed as thoroughly as you say I have dismissed others. I'm trying to keep an open mind here, despite a lot of negative comments and criticism. To be honest, I've heard little that has encouraged me to keep at this, especially given the prevalent attitude that I am damaged, insane, evil and not worth helping... which, considering the intended nature of this thread, has surprised me. The outright negativity in even the nicest comments is incredible in here... and for the record, they're not all from me. I don't want anyone to think they have to help me, or that I'm begging for help. I asked for some guidance in order to make a decision, given a very negative personal opinion of the state of the market. That's all. It's up to you whether or not to try to sway that opinion, but I wouldn't want you or anyone else to get as upset over this thing as I am already. If conversing with me frustrates and angers you, you should walk away from this thread and find something else to do. Don't feel obligated to do anything for me; It's not worth raising your blood pressure over. |
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Steve,
Your current custom user title and signature both show signs of hope..... |
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yeppers...I haven't read anything of his I particularly cared for including his opinions on writing, ebooks, etc.
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I do agree with someone earlier about maybe updating the covers. I'm also not a fan of the blue strip with your name on it on the side of the book.
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Hmm... I redesigned the covers to better brand them. I thought they were a distinct improvement on what I'd done previously. I guess I'll look at another try.
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@Steven
That's a good idea. It would be nice to hire a cover artist, but if you don't have the resources for it, it shouldn't be expensive to do yourself. Perhaps you could do a few basic "drafts" of some new covers, put it up on forums like here and ask which one works the best, and then use that one. We're not all graphic designers, but some simple changes or change in composition could make a cover go from "meh" to "pretty good." |
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Let's say you were hoping to have your book reviewed in the "new books" column of a hypothetical SF magazine -- we'll call it Digital. You could send a press release to someone at Digital, but they're not likely to read it. Everyone sends them press releases. There are nearly 1 million ebooks out for the Kindle. If we assume that all ebook writers publish through Amazon (even if they're also elsewhere), if just 10% of those are some form of SF, and if just 10% of those SF writers send out one press release each in a given year, assuming 250 working days per year, they're getting the things at a rate of 40 a day. If it takes 15 minutes to read and respond to each one (whether 'respond' includes replying, excerpting form it to print, or whatever) that's 10 hours a day -- a full-time employee and an assistant -- just dealing with press releases. And they're not paying a full-time employee to read press releases. So if you just send a press release to Digital, it's unlikely that they'll ever read it, let alone get back to you and request your book for review. Find out who it is that you need to get in touch with. Research! Send that person a personal letter. People who work at magazines don't like form letters any more than the rest of us. In short, don't be like the other however-many-thousand people who are sending them press releases for them to ignore. The thing you have to remember: You may be Mrs. Jordan's darling boy, but if you're one in a million, there are a dozen just like you in New York. No matter how good you think you are, they think you're one of the crowd. Succeeding requires standing out from that crowd. |
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