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Originally Posted by bpcyclist
Got a fair amount done on both books yesterday. Sending off the first 10 chapters of the hospital book to a potential editor/well-known author/pal for their initial impressions. Hope they think it is decent. We shall see. Strongly considering just being my own agent and publishing electronically. Ebooks aer so big in the USA now. I would obviously sell more going through an agent, but it is such a hassle. They are so officious, in my opinion. You would think they were LAPD homicide detectives or something, the way they treat potential authors. Meaning, they seem to feel that what they do is much more important than what anyone else in this nation does. So weird. So out of touch wiht reality. So, why even deal with that? I don't need them. If it's good, people will figure that out and it will sell.
As an American, just so extremely proud of all these former military generals and ex-presidents speaking their minds about erosion of Constitutional rights and setting the military against our citizens. So proud of them. Free speech is truly the gift that keeps on giving, century after century. Our founding fathers were absolute freaking GENIUSES!!!!!!!
Love and hugs to all.
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A friend of mine in the UK writes. She chooses to do ebooks and does quite well. She has a writing partner now and they do a great job as a team. They market by arranging interviews on radio shows , internet podcasts, FB events, etc.
She had also alerted groups who might be very interested in her work, gave invites to her "new release" parties on FB. She has had great luck with Amazon. She volunteers to assist other writers by volunteering to edit their work. She has quite a network of writers/editors, etc after 10 years of writing and self-publishing. She had a book signing party for her first trilogy, which had a limited number of actual books (I mean , non-ebooks) and the remainder were ebooks. She limited her signed copies to #20 copies. (I have signed copy #1 of her first trilogy.)
Just sharing a few ideas which may or may not be your style.
You are very articulate, I think you might do very well to do a TEDTalk (they can be quite brief) and release your book at the same time. I think the talks can be done without flying out to a certain destination? I hope so, as that option is important for the disabled unable to make stressful and/or expensive trips. There are lots of very popular podcasts which tend to appeal to certain groups of special interests. Just a few thoughts...
Oh, wow! Me, too! I am so relieved some of our trustworthy and wise "leaders" are taking a stand. It's an incredible relief to very many. Our Constitution is so very important. It is an incredible piece of work, a labor of Love .
