Printed in book form--that's easy now.
Made into a PDF and sent to a friend--that's even easier.
Published--that's a little harder. Or if getting published is easy
for anyone, please let me in on your secret! I know people with work
a lot better than mine who languish for years without selling
anything more than a short story or two; and the people who get
published have put in a huge amount of effort to get that far--even
if they have agents.
And the lengths to which they go to keep their names before the
publishers and the public are truly amazing. Blogs, websites, and
social media are some of the electronic means they use to do so; and
I know one author who managed to get her book onto the New York Times
bestseller list by, in part, handing out chocolates. (The author,
BTW, is Maria Snyder, and she's a genius at publicity; her book,
"Poison Study," is a terrific read. But there are also lots of other
manuscripts that are just as good that DON'T make it into print.)
--Constance Warner
On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Dats the one.
It is amazing how easily becoming published is getting.
Stewart
At 07:54 PM 6/5/2009, you wrote:
http://www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm
Amazing! They have a video of the machine in operation.
Many years ago, before the digital age, my place of employment had a
machine into which you could put a microfiche and receive a printed
and stapled report.
On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Blogs are being used much more for marketing and communication
purposes now.
Our publishing house uses one to feature and promote new
publications and books.
On another issue, I was listening to NPR last week and there is a
new way to get yourself published. There are popping up machines
that will take your document and format it and print and bind it all
for about $10.00
Allows you to get a finished product that you can hand to someone to
read. (Check out NPR I cannot remember the name of it.)
Stewart
At 06:43 PM 6/5/2009, you wrote:
Absolutely not. Rants and undisciplined self-expression in a blog
are a total waste of time. Save that for your diary.
Ask any marketing expert in the publications industry: blogging is
one of the few ways to get your work out to the public and,
ultimately, the publishers. It's getting harder--make that almost
impossible--for a first novelist--or even a midlist author who
doesn't hit the NYTimes Bestseller list--to get something published
with a major commercial publisher. But get a ready-made audience
from your blog that you can "sell" to the publisher and you've
got a
chance.
Obviously, what's on your blog had better be pretty good.
--Constance Warner
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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