What is this I don't even.

[hirez]

http://www.novelr.com/2011/02/27/rich-indie-writer
http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-everything-went-opposite-of-what-id.html
http://www.alanrinzler.com/blog/2011/02/19/book-bloggers-can-help-sell-your-book-tips-for-authors/

I mean, absolutely eleven out of ten and then some to the young woman for working out what she was going to be very early on and then doing it lots until it paid off.

Does this invalidate anything that one might have absorbed at, say, VP?

Nope.

Note that her advice includes editing like a demon and even then there will be bugs in it (Which will turn out to be shallow ones given the number of eyes on that source-code). Also that beetling off to speak nicely to the types who write weblogs about books is a good thing. That would likely fill me with fear and loathing, but since it's not actually relevant there's little point worrying about it.

(Money still flows toward the author, it's just no bloody use sitting there and expecting really hard. Or expectorating. Best move to the financial equivalent of Tewkesbury and buy galoshes. This is the only time I'm going to advocate moving there, mind.)

Comments

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Expectorating definitely wouldn't help in this situation. ;)

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Seriously useful stuff, ta. I might publish my novel that way, once I get a chance to revise it.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I think that's the thing, isn't it - having the chutzpah to wave your writing under people's noses, repeatedly, until they pay attention. Time was you only had to worry about being a performing monkey for publishers, and maybe the odd print reviewer, but now you have to be dancing in a fez to bookblogs, review sites and the populace at large.

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

Expect a dramatic increase in self-published crap! (Not that hers is; I haven't read it, I don't know. But... ripples.)

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

The missus went a-drinking with some other mum-types in Tewkesbury and came back expressing surprise that everybody in Tewkesbury seemed to know everybody else.

Whereas I expressed surprised that everybody in Tewkesbury wasn't related to everybody else.

It's fine living here, but... the flood plains enclose the gene-pool, if you get my driftwood.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I should think that there'll be about the same amount of background noise as there is on Myspace/Bandcamp/Android Market - I tend to find media-objects through other people going 'You'll like this' rather than wandering into a shop (of physical or virtual nature) and picking up something randomly.

The people who'll drown in the vomit-wave of slush will be the book-bloggers.
(Of course, an enterprising book-blogger would keep an editor and artist on hand to help the author. For a percentage, of course.)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I now have 'Chew tobacco rag' on repeat in my head. (Peelie used to play it a lot in the old days.)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2KMDA13ITg

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Wow! Fabulous, huh? Especially the graphic YUCK slipped into that happy-dappy song.

My son chewed for a while. Disgusting. Thankfully, it was a passing phase.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Is it possible to be repulsed with glee? Either way, ptt-ting!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The only thing missing is yer man going "And now, Extreme Noise Terror" afterwards.