Squirming. Also known as "promotion."
I hate promotion.
Hate, hate, hate. I mean, the actual promotion stuff itself -- interviews, reviews, mentions -- I really dig. I enjoy it enormously.
But when it comes to something like God in the Machine (not promoting tonight, it's just where this post came from), it's still young enough and small enough that it would behoove my future success for me to occasionally get in touch with blogs I like, or think are a good idea, and see if they're interested in poking around my series.
Man-o-man. You want to see me squirm, watch me type the e-mail to the people. The e-mails almost sound nothing like me. It's all part of this part of the business, but I loathe sending those e-mails to people. It seems rude and self-centered and...not me.
Mostly, I haven't done very much of it. Mostly, because I've been busy. The series has been popping up in a number of places, different places on a daily basis. The heartening thing is, most of those places are ones where I don't know the people and don't frequent the site, so they're finding it on its own merits. That makes me happy.
Every time I type one of those e-mails, I think to myself, I think, "Self? you need some hale and hardy energetic other person who has no qualms about e-mailing people and saying I represent the author of an online serial and would you like to interview him about, it or somethin', bub?"
Hmn.
Sorry for the rant.
And in order to make it a "thread" since this is a "forum," what part of promotion do you hate? Do you self-promote (whether you have to or not) and do you enjoy it? Are you good at it?
*goes to drink tea and be of good cheer*
I hate promotion.
Hate, hate, hate. I mean, the actual promotion stuff itself -- interviews, reviews, mentions -- I really dig. I enjoy it enormously.
But when it comes to something like God in the Machine (not promoting tonight, it's just where this post came from), it's still young enough and small enough that it would behoove my future success for me to occasionally get in touch with blogs I like, or think are a good idea, and see if they're interested in poking around my series.
Man-o-man. You want to see me squirm, watch me type the e-mail to the people. The e-mails almost sound nothing like me. It's all part of this part of the business, but I loathe sending those e-mails to people. It seems rude and self-centered and...not me.
Mostly, I haven't done very much of it. Mostly, because I've been busy. The series has been popping up in a number of places, different places on a daily basis. The heartening thing is, most of those places are ones where I don't know the people and don't frequent the site, so they're finding it on its own merits. That makes me happy.
Every time I type one of those e-mails, I think to myself, I think, "Self? you need some hale and hardy energetic other person who has no qualms about e-mailing people and saying I represent the author of an online serial and would you like to interview him about, it or somethin', bub?"
Hmn.
Sorry for the rant.
And in order to make it a "thread" since this is a "forum," what part of promotion do you hate? Do you self-promote (whether you have to or not) and do you enjoy it? Are you good at it?
*goes to drink tea and be of good cheer*
