Welcome back - I just got back from toasty warm (?!?) Wisconsin myself.
I always get VERY uneasy when I hear someone try the non-traditional publishing route - even if they are a semi-established mid-list author. Getting books into the distribution chain is HARD when you have no connections. (I'm speaking as a bookseller.)
Now, the social media thing is pure marketing and it's a flash-in-the-pan. These publishing-marketers are looking for authors who can do their marketing job for them. Lazy bums. Now the author has to hire a publicist for this stuff. Used to be the publisher did this kind of thing. 5 years from now it won't be facebook and twitter - it'll be something we haven't seen yet.
One last thing before I get off the soapbox...flash is not ADA compliant (in addition to being a blight on good taste) and will make your website inaccessible to a number of demographics you'd want.
3 book proposals? Can I just say, SQEEEE?! Now to try and stop drooling - these are probably 2 years out, right? OKfine. Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
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2010-10-13 19:46 (UTC)I always get VERY uneasy when I hear someone try the non-traditional publishing route - even if they are a semi-established mid-list author. Getting books into the distribution chain is HARD when you have no connections. (I'm speaking as a bookseller.)
Now, the social media thing is pure marketing and it's a flash-in-the-pan. These publishing-marketers are looking for authors who can do their marketing job for them. Lazy bums. Now the author has to hire a publicist for this stuff. Used to be the publisher did this kind of thing. 5 years from now it won't be facebook and twitter - it'll be something we haven't seen yet.
One last thing before I get off the soapbox...flash is not ADA compliant (in addition to being a blight on good taste) and will make your website inaccessible to a number of demographics you'd want.
3 book proposals? Can I just say, SQEEEE?!
Now to try and stop drooling - these are probably 2 years out, right? OKfine.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks