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Moonlight in the Himalayas by Lawrence Morgan
I'm posting this but I can see as I poke around that this site is full of great advice about promoting my book. If anyone has anything to add, please do, but on looking around I can see plenty of ideas that will keep me busy both reading it and putting my promotion campaign together. This site looks like a lot of fun!
I wrote this book about the Himalayas in Nepal a few years ago. I sent it to fifty agents, and didnt get much response or encouragement. I put it on Amazon/createspace, and have sold a few copies. I havent done much with my writing in a while but I am thinking to give it a go again.
I published about ten magazine articles while I was enthusiastic about writing. They were in small travel and nature/outdoors magazines. Then I thought Ide move up in the world by writing a book. I think it was maybe too much for my skills and experience at the time. I bit off more than I could chew.
I thought about it, and probably the book does not have enough mass appeal for a publisher to bother, there might just not be enough potential buyers out there.
It is a narrative nonfiction. In the story I am hiking through the Himalayas, and describe as many aspects of the culture, natural history, and geography as I could cover, both through personal experience and observation and library research. I think it might appeal to a trekker considering hiking in the Everest region of Nepal, but would have little interest for anyone else.
So, without putting too much more effort into it, Im thinking of trying to market a little by a wordpress blog. In my mind there might be a thousand or so people out there a year that might be interested in it, and who knows how many of them would actually click the paypal button and buy it. Anyway, that is one reason I am on this site is to look over ideas for self promotion.
Like I said, I published in actual paper magazines about ten articles on travel in Asia, so the writing is probably good enough for publication. After I published them I walked into the store and bought a copy off the rack. Im in Nepal right now hiking around, so not in a position to do much other than put together ideas for when I get home in a couple months.
Anyway, lots of good ideas on this site and Im glad I stumbled on it.
Moonlight in the Himalayas by Lawrence Morgan
I'm posting this but I can see as I poke around that this site is full of great advice about promoting my book. If anyone has anything to add, please do, but on looking around I can see plenty of ideas that will keep me busy both reading it and putting my promotion campaign together. This site looks like a lot of fun!
I wrote this book about the Himalayas in Nepal a few years ago. I sent it to fifty agents, and didnt get much response or encouragement. I put it on Amazon/createspace, and have sold a few copies. I havent done much with my writing in a while but I am thinking to give it a go again.
I published about ten magazine articles while I was enthusiastic about writing. They were in small travel and nature/outdoors magazines. Then I thought Ide move up in the world by writing a book. I think it was maybe too much for my skills and experience at the time. I bit off more than I could chew.
I thought about it, and probably the book does not have enough mass appeal for a publisher to bother, there might just not be enough potential buyers out there.
It is a narrative nonfiction. In the story I am hiking through the Himalayas, and describe as many aspects of the culture, natural history, and geography as I could cover, both through personal experience and observation and library research. I think it might appeal to a trekker considering hiking in the Everest region of Nepal, but would have little interest for anyone else.
So, without putting too much more effort into it, Im thinking of trying to market a little by a wordpress blog. In my mind there might be a thousand or so people out there a year that might be interested in it, and who knows how many of them would actually click the paypal button and buy it. Anyway, that is one reason I am on this site is to look over ideas for self promotion.
Like I said, I published in actual paper magazines about ten articles on travel in Asia, so the writing is probably good enough for publication. After I published them I walked into the store and bought a copy off the rack. Im in Nepal right now hiking around, so not in a position to do much other than put together ideas for when I get home in a couple months.
Anyway, lots of good ideas on this site and Im glad I stumbled on it.
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