"I shall dress as a bedraggled bat and go up to each and every customer in your store and beg them to buy the book or else I won't be able to eat. If they're unwilling to buy the book, I'll ask if they any insects on them that I could eat."
Bwah! Laughed out loud.
I guess I underget how much authors have to do on their own to sell books.
Perhaps I am simply a coward, but I swear, the idea of having to market and sell my books my own self was the final proverbial nail in the coffin of my fond dreams of becoming a published writer. I can't do it. It's simply not worth the utter terror I would feel if confronted with the expectation that I would have to go to my own bookreading armed with entertainment for a horde of children.
meara, as I understand it, it's typical practice with mortgages that you have to specifically direct them to put any additional money towards the principal.
I do feel like I've been dicked around, for no good reason.
Ugh. I imagine it's more a case of them not paying attention to something that isn't a problem at this exact moment, though, right?
Does this sound like the kind of quote you'd be happy to get if you wrote this book?
Yes.
meara, as I understand it, it's typical practice with mortgages that you have to specifically direct them to put any additional money towards the principal.
I've found this to be true. My bank will "credit" anything extra I pay towards future payments unless I specifically tell them it's to be put on the principle.
My Tom Hardy whoa! for the day. At least I'm assuming I'm done for the day.
meara, as I understand it, it's typical practice with mortgages that you have to specifically direct them to put any additional money towards the principal.
I've found this to be true. My bank will "credit" anything extra I pay towards future payments unless I specifically tell them it's to be put on the principle.
I can't even pay anything except the exact amount online. If I want to put a little extra or make an extra payment or whatever, I have to call the Real Estate Dept at the bank.
I can vouch that the onus of marketing has fallen to the author. You're expected to organize that shit and sell the hell out of your book and market it any way you can.
I did get one publisher to cover my travel expenses to Chicago to promote Lost in the Grooves, but otherwise the most I've gotten are some postcards to promote the book.
Fortunately, Kim's a genius at that shit so the first two books had lots of marketing oomph. And the 33 book is part of a series and had a built in fan base so it just sort of continues to sell as people discover it or figure out that it's a good size for a xmas stocking.
ION, serious weather!
(That's a photograph, not a painting or a digitally mocked up image. Montana.)
