Comments on: They Work Very Hard http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2010/03/21/they-work-very-hard/ The Grimace and the Giggle Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marva Dasef http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/2010/03/21/they-work-very-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Marva Dasef Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:20:10 +0000 http://www.ejruek.com/EJRuek-author-blog/?p=444#comment-139 This definitely hits home on me. First, I'm not good at it. Second, promoting self-pubbed books is even harder than if you have even a small-time publisher. Third, even having a publisher is worthless if they do nothing to promote. I'm close to pulling Quest off the shelves. I'll choke on the dust when I do, but it's becoming an embarrassment. Despite the good efforts of people like yourself, Clayton, and other friends, self-pubbed fantasy doesn't sell unless I made a massive marketing push and spent a lot of money I don't have. A niche market book like Tales of a Texas Boy is chugging along like the tiniest trawling motor. No big sales, but it does sell in a trickle. Okay, end of self-pitying post. Captcha words: miscarry by. Isn't that ironic. This definitely hits home on me. First, I’m not good at it. Second, promoting self-pubbed books is even harder than if you have even a small-time publisher. Third, even having a publisher is worthless if they do nothing to promote.

I’m close to pulling Quest off the shelves. I’ll choke on the dust when I do, but it’s becoming an embarrassment. Despite the good efforts of people like yourself, Clayton, and other friends, self-pubbed fantasy doesn’t sell unless I made a massive marketing push and spent a lot of money I don’t have.

A niche market book like Tales of a Texas Boy is chugging along like the tiniest trawling motor. No big sales, but it does sell in a trickle.

Okay, end of self-pitying post.

Captcha words: miscarry by. Isn’t that ironic.

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