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Hmmm... so if you had a bunch of books ready to go, and then pretended to be dead, you could get out of the promotion hassle.
Your defense, when caught, would that in concluding the creative process, you had died a metaphoric death.
Adding: Back to author promotion. I guess I'm showing my age, think it should remain dignified. I remember before internet promotion seeing an author in a bookstore sitting behind a table next to a pile of his books. I thought, "How sad." Ann3 L@mont, after she was a best seller, did a bookstore event and only friends showed up.
The first time I was invited to a bookstore event by an author, I was irritated to find it was just a "signing" meaning the only thing to do was buy the book and get it signed. "I hereby invite you to come plunk down 20 bucks for my book." The least you should do if you invite people to a bookstore is entertain them with anecdotes about writing the book, read a sample chapter, offer cookies!
(Catwoman probably read that and dived back under the couch! I think she's a good candidate for the playing dead approach to promotion)
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