"The Shameless Promotion and Endless Plug-Your-Novel Thread"

[Kevin2960]

Originally Posted by ImogenRose

Here is my dog plugging my book

Imogen,


I want your book,

My wife wants the Dog,

Do you sell them as a Package Deal ???

[ImogenRose]

Originally Posted by Kevin2960

Imogen,


I want your book,

My wife wants the Dog,

Do you sell them as a Package Deal ???

Lol, Kevin.... I can sell her my teen..... in fact, I'll pay you to take her....

[Kevin2960]

Originally Posted by ImogenRose

Lol, Kevin.... I can sell her my teen..... in fact, I'll pay you to take her....

Wendie says not unless she has 4 legs and a tail, and you beat us to it, we were going to offer our 20 year old son for the book and the Dog,

When you have a moment to spare, Wendie would love to hear about the Dog, Name, Sex, Habbits etc if its not too much trouble, Don't worry if you can't,

Fomdest Regards

[Simon Wood]

Use coupon code PE55M & get 33% of Asking For Trouble over at smashwords.

Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/12089

[ImogenRose]

Originally Posted by Kevin2960

Wendie says not unless she has 4 legs and a tail, and you beat us to it, we were going to offer our 20 year old son for the book and the Dog,

When you have a moment to spare, Wendie would love to hear about the Dog, Name, Sex, Habbits etc if its not too much trouble, Don't worry if you can't,

Fomdest Regards

I can talk about my dog endlessly, but will keep it short, so Dr. Drib doesn't blackball me. Her name is Tallulah. She is a six-year-old Chihuahua. She models for my Hermès scarf blog, loves it. She will only eat human foods, freshly prepared. Beef with sweetcorn and rice is her favorite meal. Relaxation is her favorite pass time. She loves people, but is not fond of other animals (including dogs).

Im

[EllenFisher]

Hello, all. I'm a total newb on this forum, so I hope you will be patient with me as I learn the ropes. Looks like a nice place to hang out!

I'm a romance author with several ninety-nine cent books available as Kindle editions on Amazon:

Isn't It Romantic?, contemporary romance novella

In the Mood, contemporary romance novella

All I Ever Wanted, contemporary romance novel

Never Love a Stranger, time travel/sci fi romance novel

All are re-releases and have received good reviews, which you can read (along with excerpts) at my website.

ImogenRose, your dog is cute! My dogs would eat the book:-).

[ImogenRose]

Ellen, welcome to MR! Your books sound very interesting.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by EllenFisher

Hello, all. I'm a total newb on this forum, so I hope you will be patient with me as I learn the ropes. Looks like a nice place to hang out!

I'm a romance author with several ninety-nine cent books available as Kindle editions on Amazon:

Isn't It Romantic?, contemporary romance novella

In the Mood, contemporary romance novella

All I Ever Wanted, contemporary romance novel

Never Love a Stranger, time travel/sci fi romance novel

All are re-releases and have received good reviews, which you can read (along with excerpts) at my website.

ImogenRose, your dog is cute! My dogs would eat the book:-).

Welcome to MobileRead, EllenFisher.

You may also wish to drop on over to the "Introduce Yourself" Forum and say hello.

This is the place to plug your books; and, because you are SPECIAL AND NEW, you earned a "MY POST FULLY QUOTED AGAIN!" AWARD! (Now, how's that for another plug for your books?)


Don
(Moderator)

[EllenFisher]

Thank you, ImogenRose. And thank you, Dr. Drib. I'm special and new, yay! I will go introduce myself just as soon as I drive my littlest guy to preschool.

[Donna Callea]

Here's the thing.

I've come to the conclusion that my books want no shameless self-promotion on my part.

In fact, my books are very embarrassed by my acts of shameless self-promotion.

What my books want, instead, are to be discovered by a BIG PUBLISHER who's convinced they are destined to become HOT SELLERS -- make that BEST SELLERS-- and thus willing to spend unlimited amount of advertising dollars promoting them the RIGHT WAY.

Or--and this would work, too--my books would like to be discovered by a BIG MOVIE PRODUCER who will ensure that they are made into critically acclaimed movies that do boffo box office business and win Oscars. Of course, I will have final say over casting decisions. And it goes without saying that my books (and their author) will be mentioned glowingly in sll acceptance speeches.

My books also wouldn't mind if a gazillion readers spontaneously decided to purchase, read and LOVE them.

So, as a sensitive and serious writer, I have hereby decided to respect my books' feelings, and will immediately cease and desist all acts of shameless promotion.

Thank you for your support.

[Donna Callea]

Oh, forgot to mention that both my books are priced at the amazingly low price of 99 cents.

New Coastal Times is a quirky post-apocalyptic romp through climate changing times.

The Haircut, A New Year's Tale is a sensual, whimsical love story set just after Christmas, 1948, in a city that could be New York.

[Steve Anderson]

Hi all,

I'll keep this short — just wanted you to know my noir espionage thriller The Losing Role is $1.99 for a limited time on Kindle, Smashwords and others along with my other books. Here's the story:

At the end of World War II a failed German actor, Max Kaspar, is forced to join a desperate secret mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer. So Max cooks up his own fanatical plan — he'll use his false identity to escape tyranny and war and flee to the America he'd once abandoned.

I hope you'll check it out

Thanks and happy reading,
Steve

[William Campbell]

New review for Awakening...

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Kindle edition 99 cents. No DRM, text-to-speech enabled.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0034G6628

More ebook formats at Smashword, also 99 cents.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/8981

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Donna Callea

Here's the thing.

I've come to the conclusion that my books want no shameless self-promotion on my part.

In fact, my books are very embarrassed by my acts of shameless self-promotion.

What my books want, instead, are to be discovered by a BIG PUBLISHER who's convinced they are destined to become HOT SELLERS -- make that BEST SELLERS-- and thus willing to spend unlimited amount of advertising dollars promoting them the RIGHT WAY.

Or--and this would work, too--my books would like to be discovered by a BIG MOVIE PRODUCER who will ensure that they are made into critically acclaimed movies that do boffo box office business and win Oscars. Of course, I will have final say over casting decisions. And it goes without saying that my books (and their author) will be mentioned glowingly in sll acceptance speeches.

My books also wouldn't mind if a gazillion readers spontaneously decided to purchase, read and LOVE them.

So, as a sensitive and serious writer, I have hereby decided to respect my books' feelings, and will immediately cease and desist all acts of shameless promotion.

Thank you for your support.

I'm sorry, but I am compelled to give you another "Shameless Promotion," due to your creative post, listed above my paragraph.



Don
(Moderator)

[Donna Callea]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I'm sorry, but I am compelled to give you another "Shameless Promotion," due to your creative post, listed above my paragraph.



Don
(Moderator)

Dr. Drib,
I know you mean well. But it's not helping. I'm trying very hard to deal with my shameless self-promotion habit, which, as I've noted, has proven very embarrassing to my blameless books.

Also... I've been thinking, which is something I often do instead of working on my current novel-in-progress (so you can guess how that one is coming along). There's a difference between shameful self-promotion and shameless self-promotion. Shameless implies that a writer is without shame, while a shameful self-promoting writer would obviously be full of shame.

So which am I? Not shameless, even though there are those who would say that there's no shame in promoting your own work if no one else will. My books are ashamed of me when I self-promote. They don't think it's very dignified, and it makes them feel cheap. Of course, they are cheap. Just 99 cents. But that's beside the point.

So am I a shameful self-promoter? Well, I'm not full of shame. I'm full of something, that's for sure, but it's not shame.

Here's a thought. (They come to me randomly)
Since I'm compelled to self-promote, I think I'd feel a lot better if I could do it without having to attach a shame-based adjective to the act. Maybe we all would. Why bring up the shame? When you take away the shame, being a self-promoter doesn't sound so bad. In fact, it's akin to being a self-starter, a self-helper, a self-censor... even a self-made success.

OK. I feel better now. I'm going to stop thinking now, and start working again on my work-in-progress. Which someday, no doubt, I'll be attempting to proudly self-promote.