Okay, instead of reading The Feckless rant and rave about nothing in particular, we've decided to start some discussions going. When you brought up this page, you were infected with some pretty nasty subliminal messaging that means you will...yes you WILL...contribute to the discussion.
First up is what REALLY sells your book.
- Do you get all your sales from Twitter, Facebook, a combination of things?
- Have you made a YouTube video that's upped your book sales by a billion percent?
- Does persistent spamming and DMing people you don't know work?
- Have you tried pay-per-click?
- Have you done a blog tour thats been really successfully or a total waste of time?
- Have you sold your soul to the devil and really don't have to bother with trivial things such as social networking?
- Have you emailed people with pictures of fossilized pooh asking them to buy your book?
Those are just some of the questions The Feckless needs to answer. Make up your own if you don't like them. Ask questions. Give answers. Put a fecking smiley face there. We don't care.
So get writing, do it from the heart as usual, and get your views down and dirty in the comments section below. Whether you're a beginner or a marketing demon, we want to hear from you...
We wait with cruel anticipation....by the way, the subliminal messaging thing...if you try to ignore it...your head explodes...


When it comes to buying books, word of mouth is probably the biggest contributing factor. I've got a blog roll full of people who seem to have a keen idea on what's good out there.
ReplyDeleteThe book sells itself. After all the “blog talk” is done, the book has to live up to its hype and make the sales. The other day I read Mike Well’s blog “The Wild Publishing Story.” http://ht.ly/8Sa5j In it he talked how his first book, “Wild Child,” ended up in trash only to become the Amazon’s UK #1 Bestseller. A very interesting story.
ReplyDeleteI will have a look, thanks for the link Joseph
ReplyDeleteDon't know about everyone else, but I quickly unfollow anyone who spams me with their "READ MY BOOK!!!! GREATEST BOOK EVAHR!!!" garbage. As for what works? I really can't say. One link (not 10) to a blog post? Sure, why not. If it piques my interest I'll go for it anyway. But spam me and I guarantee you I'll never read a damn thing.
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