The career novelist
Numbers, numbers, numbers which assumes a certain cover price, estimates revenues at different levels of sales. (Remember sales? ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST A vicious competition for shelf space did not help. Soon, over- printing became the norm. A 50 percent retur ...
Numbers, numbers, numbers to acquire! (A sale of four thousand copies is typical for a mystery, to be sure, but it is not the fi ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST your shelf and sell three of them, that is an efficient use of your space. If, though, you have four and sel ...
Numbers, numbers, numbers er the interval, this number is a measure of early returns. Now, early returns are expected, but too h ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Announcements like "100,000 copy first printing" are ... well, let's not call them lies, exactly; rather, le ...
Numbers, numbers, numbers public, maybe even face out. And do not be mistaken: publishers take this contest for space very serio ...
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11 CHAPTER Self-Promotion or Self-Delusion? BORN-AGAIN YOU HAVE PROBABLY MET THEM AT CONVENTIONS. INDEED, they are hard to avoid ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST coordinators at "Donahue" and "Oprah"? Should you send in your life savings to secure advertising space? Wha ...
Self-promotion or self-delusion? Naturally, publicists have their own ideas of success. Big points are scored for booking author ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST ever been interviewed on TV or for publication? Can you, right this second, explain what makes your novel im ...
Self-promotion or self-delusion? lower rungs of the ladder. Publicity is a business of contacts. As fea- ture writers become edi ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Regarding your publisher, experienced self-promoters know that when their editors say they want to control t ...
Self-promotion or self-delusion? sidered" and, especially, "Fresh Air" are the holy grails of book pub- licity. Is there a local ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST weeks in advance. Follow-up calls are made a week or two later. For media coverage of an event, call no soon ...
Self-promotion or self-delusion? Even then you will probably have to do a certain amount of work yourself; for instance, thank y ...
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12 CHAPTER Strategy Session II: Midcareer Damage Control PUBLISH AND PERISH YOU MIGHT IMAGINE THAT, AS AN AGENT WITH A SOLID rep ...
THE CAREER NOVELIST Sadly, many authors bring fatal accidents upon themselves. On the other hand, that means that some career di ...
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