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There are a couple of authors who were fairly well known when my first book first came out, and blurbed it, and two of them were at my launch (just a lunch, small group) and both said they really loved it, and they meant it.
Both are on twitter and tweet away a lot of the time. And in both cases, their careers have really taken off. They both write UK bestsellers, one of them won the Romantic Novelist Prize last year. One of them follows me on Twitter, and sometimes we exchange messages. But I am not a very active tweeter and really only go there occasionally. I sometimes send her messages, for instance whenever a TV adaptation of one of her books comes on German TV, and there are all sorts of interviews and stuff of her on TV here. So we chat about that mostly. She has 8000 followers. She's a really, really nice, warm hearted person. We used to share an agent. Once, my agent and I went to visit her when she was in hospital, and she remembers.
Now that I am about to self-publish that very book as an e-book, would it be very rude to approach her directly about it, and ask for a mention, or should I simply post a general announcement when it comes out and hope she picks it up?
I just hate the idea of being pushy about my book. Even to tweet about it generally when it comes out goes against the grain. But I know I should by soliciting all the help I can get...
Then there's another author, very well known, whom I once did a book tour with. Of course, I was the very junior author on that tour and she was the star attraction. But she too gave the same book a brilliant blurb. But it was so very long ago...
confused.com
Both are on twitter and tweet away a lot of the time. And in both cases, their careers have really taken off. They both write UK bestsellers, one of them won the Romantic Novelist Prize last year. One of them follows me on Twitter, and sometimes we exchange messages. But I am not a very active tweeter and really only go there occasionally. I sometimes send her messages, for instance whenever a TV adaptation of one of her books comes on German TV, and there are all sorts of interviews and stuff of her on TV here. So we chat about that mostly. She has 8000 followers. She's a really, really nice, warm hearted person. We used to share an agent. Once, my agent and I went to visit her when she was in hospital, and she remembers.
Now that I am about to self-publish that very book as an e-book, would it be very rude to approach her directly about it, and ask for a mention, or should I simply post a general announcement when it comes out and hope she picks it up?
I just hate the idea of being pushy about my book. Even to tweet about it generally when it comes out goes against the grain. But I know I should by soliciting all the help I can get...
Then there's another author, very well known, whom I once did a book tour with. Of course, I was the very junior author on that tour and she was the star attraction. But she too gave the same book a brilliant blurb. But it was so very long ago...
confused.com
