shameless self-promotion!

aliantha · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:24 pm Post subject: shameless self-promotion!

I created a coupon for the new book. This weekend, if you click the link for "SwanSong" in my signature below, and paste BG45X into the coupon box at checkout, you can get the book for 99 cents.

We now return you to our regular programming. Cool

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deer of the dawn · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:30 pm Post subject:

Cool! I'm looking forward to reading it!!
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aliantha · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks! I need to get a copy of yours too... Embarassed

Payday's Friday. I'll do it then, I promise. Smile

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Holsety · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject:

I remember reading a portion of your first book online...IIRC, doesn't it start with a college professor teaching a class on feminism? Seemed brilliant, but I am no longer in the book reading mood Sad

Still, I've decided that if there can be paper copies ordered, I will get both. That way I can say I know an author reasonably well, at least online.

Book reading mood? MORE LIKE THE BOOK WRITING MOOD!

Oh brother, I actually looked at the plot of the books and neither match, I must have gotten you two confused? How embarassing? To be fair, I get people I know IRL confused nowadays...
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Menolly · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:45 pm Post subject:

aliantha · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:02 pm Post subject:

Holsety · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:14 pm Post subject:

aliantha · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:25 pm Post subject:

Well, there ya go. Clearly I need help. Laughing

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stonemaybe · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: shameless self-promotion!

aliantha · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:40 am Post subject: Re: shameless self-promotion!

Sorus · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:46 pm Post subject:

Bought it today and looking forward to reading though it might take me a while as I don't have a real e-reader.
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Holsety · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:06 pm Post subject:

Bought Maiden's War since it's not e-book. (not that I dislike the idea of ebooks, just I don't really like actually trying to read 'em) Hope I get around to reading it since the plot seems interesting.
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aliantha · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks, you guys! Hearts

I'm in the process of figuring out this dead-tree publishing thing. Will let y'all know when it's available....
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Sorus · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:15 pm Post subject:

I'm still on the fence about e-books vs. physical books... I like the idea of e-books from multiple perspectives - environmental, not taking up space or gathering dust, general ooooh, shiny technology... But at the end of the day, you just can't beat the feel of a real book. And knowing me, I'd forget to charge the darn thing - being unable to read because I haven't plugged my book in would really suck. Razz

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aliantha · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've had a Sony Reader for several years, but I still read a lot of dead-tree books, my bookshelves are still stuffed. If people would quit giving me paperbacks they're done with, it would be a lot easier for me to give up the dead-tree habit. Laughing

I tell you what, tho, I bought the e-book version of ADWD and have not missed lugging a doorstop around with me....
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Holsety · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:28 pm Post subject:

deer of the dawn · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject:

I'm not altogether convinced that paper books are more environmntally costly than computers. All the heavy metals and stuff in them, and then they only last 4-6 years whereas I've read paperbacks that were printed in the '60s; which if I put in the garden would soon be part of the earth again whereas a computer will be junk forever.

Smile

Anyway I used CreateSpace for Blackbirch Woods and Smashwords for the e-book. (It cost money to e-book-ize on CreateSpace; Smashwords was free. For Ardinéa I put it out as a freebie on Smashwords because I wrote it 10 years ago and I think it's a little silly, now. But not a bad read anyway.)

Anyhoo, I don't know that you would get more sales on Amazon than Lulu-- you only get what you work your butt off for.
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aliantha · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:42 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the environmental angle for e-books is kinda shaky, for precisely the reasons you name. And yet I do think that's where the publishing industry is headed. I think the publishing industry and the bookstores shot themselves in the foot by jacking up the prices on hardcovers while focusing solely on blockbuster books -- fiction by well-known authors and celebrity bios, that kind of thing. And it's obvious they were blindsided by the rise of self-publishing. It used to be that you had to sink tons of your own money into a contract with a vanity press in order to get your work before the public -- and even then, you probably only sold a few copies to your friends and family. Now, if you get a friend to help you with the cover art, you can publish your work on Amazon for free. It's a whole different ballgame. Smile

And that's aside from the technology angle.

It'll be interesting to see where the industry is in 10 or 15 years. I think a lot of agents, in particular, will be looking for other work. Unless they can figure out how to make a living by inserting themselves between authors and publishers like Amazon.
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Sorus · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:15 am Post subject:

aliantha · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:44 am Post subject:

...and they're not biodegrading if they're thrown in dumpsters and hauled off to the landfill. I know what happens there. If you're lucky, eventually the mound of trash gets big enough that the municipality caps it thoroughly and turns it into a park. That's if you're lucky. Sad

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