Comments on: Writerly Sunday – Promotion (Part I)

By: Mary Lou George

Mary Lou George — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:43:02 +0000

Thanks so much for the advice, I’m a newly published writer with Siren/Bookstrand. The whole promotion thing is overwhelming enough to make me consider giving up the whole writing thing, but I’m discovering that there’s a wealth of goodwill out there and so much comes from other writers! Thanks to you all.

By: Phoebe Matthews

Phoebe Matthews — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:59:35 +0000

Some interesting comments here. I do hope you’ll come up with some good suggestions on what works and doesn’t annoy anyone.

I have found favorite writers among the Release Day announcements on YahooGroups. And I love reading the excerpts.

By: Debbie Kaufman

Debbie Kaufman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:39:21 +0000

I agree that loop spam is annoying. I also agree that true name recognition takes time to build. Can’t wait to hear what you have to say about what works!

By: Delilah Devlin

Delilah Devlin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:22:11 +0000

I’ll be following the posts. Promo is something I know I suck at. Such a time drain when all I want to do is just write, write, write!

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Nice Mommy~Evil Editor » Blog Archive » Friday Confessional 2-6-2009 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:27:43 +0000

[...] Author Lauren Dane has started a Sunday series on promotion. [...]

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:21:29 +0000

Happy Birthday Lauren !!

By: Karin

Karin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:06:49 +0000

I have to agree with the points you made about being pushy. I’m not a big fan of people pushing stuff on me, which is one reason I dislike sales people. The email SPAM and loop SPAM are annoying, but all I have to do is click on the little box and delete it without even looking at it, which I do frequently.

By: limecello

limecello — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:29:43 +0000

My brain is broken, but I’m going to chime in about the loop spam. I hate it. I’m constantly surprised by the loops I’m in. Maybe I did get signed up as not me O_o
I try to put everything as “no mail” yet stuff sneaks in. I hate it – getting 10 emails a day about something makes me want to not only delete it and not read the book, but go around telling OTHER people not to read it :X. (Note I don’t actually do this – I just want to.)

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:46:30 +0000

Thank you for the insightful posting and I totally AGREE with everything. There have been NUMEROUS books, I truly WOULDN’T have even THOUGHT about purchasing …except that someone SWORE to me it was a a “to die for” book/series.

Just to name a few..

Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Truthfully sounded like a fighting kind of book. More fighting than romance kind.

OK…Wrong!

Then PRE True Blood, saw the cover to one of the books and thought maybe it was more of a Youth kind of book.

A friend (Actually the same one who Swore by the BDB) SENT me the series. Man, I read each one back to back and simply couldn’t get enough.

More than 1/2 the books I’ve read, came from reviews from friends.

Thus, I return the favor and review/contest books I ADORE.

By: Mad

Mad — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:04:15 +0000

I completely agree on the Loop Spam…can’t stand that when they’re not active and then just decide to pop in on the day their book releases or have someone who is also not active do it for them. Drives me insane and I take real pleasure in putting them on “moderated” so I can happily hit the delete button each time I get a pending notice.

The newsletter signing up also is another pet peeve…if I didn’t sign up for your newsletter…please do NOT sign me up yourself!