#$@%&*!!!
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I am both energized, and repeatedly crushed, by marketing.
Marketing someone else's stuff would simply be busy. Very busy.
Marketing your own is like doing a happy-high stimulant and following it up in a few hours with a bat to the head.
That is all.
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Rosy Cole says:
All sympathy, Kristen. I
All sympathy, Kristen. I detest the idea, too, but unfortunately it makes no difference how you publish, this is a fact of authorial life in the twenty-first century. There's a lot to be said for being in control of it yourself.
Good luck!
Dale Estey says:
Being in control of
Being in control of marketing yourself means things actually get done.
Kristen J. Tsetsi says:
Very true!
I've actually come to enjoy marketing...I LOVE the control I have, and I'm almost positive that if I had the money to hire a publicist, I'd be a micro-manager at this point.
However: the extreme highs and lows are ... well, they just are. :)
Joshua Keidan says:
Very Cool
Okay the few hours of getting a bat to the head aside I think it is way cool that you do you own marketing. No worrying about buzzwords, no worrying about trendy ideas that you have to do 'because all the good authors are doing them'despite the fact that you object to them and you know it will turn off your core audiance (to which the proper response was 'If all the good authors were jumping off a bridge to get publicity, would you ask me to also')you get to do what feels right for you. Bravo, I think this is the way to go!
Keep up the good work, a think a lot of authors will be watching what authors like you when people start going on a more independent path.
Fiona Robyn says:
; )
I have more of a love-hate relationship with it - it can be fun, but it can be soul-destroying... as we said, bring on the publicist!