The Mummies Need Your Help... (And So Do I)
Everyone,
I know, it's me again, asking for your help with boosting the signal and getting the word out on Mansfield Park and Mummies.
The book is moving copies, but it is small press, and I have no fan base... And at this time I find it very hard to find not just the time but the energy and human will to self-promote...
Plus, there's the old stigma. I feel it on my shoulders like a boat anchor.
HOW DARE SHE SELF-PROMOTE?
YEAH, THAT ONE. I've been told ages ago by people who simply have no clue and don't understand my desperate situation -- and the subsequent desperate situation of ALL MY BOOKS that got embroiled in the same mess -- that, "how dare I promote them so much?"
This was back in the days when my first novel Dreams of the Compass Rose was just newly out (in POD, not even the ibooks publisher Byron Preiss's death and resulting publisher bankruptcy fiasco had happened yet, putting my book's one and only "real" publication re-issue in indefinite contractual limbo), no one was doing anything for it, and I was laid off from the day job, in the throes of my own personal bankruptcy. I was using my food money to buy copies (not even at an author discount, hah!) and send them out manually to hand-picked reviewers, to get a tiny handful of them to review.
But see, I was young and innocent, bright and bushy-tailed, and happy to work my ass off to be the book's one-woman cheerleader squad... thinking that I could single-handedly change the world, that I would get readers, get word of mouth, finally break in and get the opportunity to write books for the big guys. Macmillan, I am looking at you. ;-)
Now, fast forward almost a decade.
Skip a bunch of tedious daily misfortune, drudgery and agony. You've heard all of it before.
Now, to be blunt -- I desperately need to have this book sell more copies.
Right now.
Many, many, more copies.
So that I can finally climb out of this many-decade-old hole of misery, long before the economy crashed. (Long before many of you felt this pinch, I was in the hole.)
And now, this is such a good, positive, constructive, straightforward opportunity for me to get my bearings at last, to scramble up and above ground, for the first time in my life.
Right now, this one book can save me.
So, I need more people to hear about this book. I need your mentions, reviews, postings, chatter, buzz, word of mouth... to random strangers and intentional friends! That offer of a free-to-qualifying-reviewers PDF still stands.
Just in case this needs to be clarified and highlighted, I've seen it mentioned that some of these other remotely similar monster mash-ups (such as the latest upcoming Quirk book product "Android Karenina") are getting a first print-run of 200,000 copies.
This makes me crazy.
My own Mansfield Park and Mummies, written with such love and care and attention to detail and Jane Austen verisimilitude, has -- to date -- sold around 300 copies.
That's three effing digits.
Help me here, folks.
Don't just be sweet and kind and buy extra copies of this book. That doesn't help me the long run. No -- I am begging you to talk about the book to others. Mention it to everyone you know! And tell them to mention it to at least one person!
If at least one new person heard, and they in turn told one more person...
It would help a whole damn lot.
Please, use your infinite power of free speech for me.
If you need various online bookstore links, here they are. Note: I am not excluding Amazon (though I sympathize with all my heart with all my friends who are Macmillan authors) since I simply cannot afford to limit my book's already limited exposure....
Barnes & Noble
Amazon
Kindle E-Book Edition
Amazon UK
Amazon CA
Amazon FR
Amazon DE
Amazon JP
Books-A-Million
BookFinder
Borders Australia
Powell's
Blackwell
Waterstone's
Chapters
AddAll
Buy.com
The Book Depository
IndieBound
Official Mummies Website
. . .
I know, it's me again, asking for your help with boosting the signal and getting the word out on Mansfield Park and Mummies.
The book is moving copies, but it is small press, and I have no fan base... And at this time I find it very hard to find not just the time but the energy and human will to self-promote...
Plus, there's the old stigma. I feel it on my shoulders like a boat anchor.
HOW DARE SHE SELF-PROMOTE?
YEAH, THAT ONE. I've been told ages ago by people who simply have no clue and don't understand my desperate situation -- and the subsequent desperate situation of ALL MY BOOKS that got embroiled in the same mess -- that, "how dare I promote them so much?"
This was back in the days when my first novel Dreams of the Compass Rose was just newly out (in POD, not even the ibooks publisher Byron Preiss's death and resulting publisher bankruptcy fiasco had happened yet, putting my book's one and only "real" publication re-issue in indefinite contractual limbo), no one was doing anything for it, and I was laid off from the day job, in the throes of my own personal bankruptcy. I was using my food money to buy copies (not even at an author discount, hah!) and send them out manually to hand-picked reviewers, to get a tiny handful of them to review.
But see, I was young and innocent, bright and bushy-tailed, and happy to work my ass off to be the book's one-woman cheerleader squad... thinking that I could single-handedly change the world, that I would get readers, get word of mouth, finally break in and get the opportunity to write books for the big guys. Macmillan, I am looking at you. ;-)
Now, fast forward almost a decade.
Skip a bunch of tedious daily misfortune, drudgery and agony. You've heard all of it before.
Now, to be blunt -- I desperately need to have this book sell more copies.
Right now.
Many, many, more copies.
So that I can finally climb out of this many-decade-old hole of misery, long before the economy crashed. (Long before many of you felt this pinch, I was in the hole.)
And now, this is such a good, positive, constructive, straightforward opportunity for me to get my bearings at last, to scramble up and above ground, for the first time in my life.
Right now, this one book can save me.
So, I need more people to hear about this book. I need your mentions, reviews, postings, chatter, buzz, word of mouth... to random strangers and intentional friends! That offer of a free-to-qualifying-reviewers PDF still stands.
Just in case this needs to be clarified and highlighted, I've seen it mentioned that some of these other remotely similar monster mash-ups (such as the latest upcoming Quirk book product "Android Karenina") are getting a first print-run of 200,000 copies.
This makes me crazy.
My own Mansfield Park and Mummies, written with such love and care and attention to detail and Jane Austen verisimilitude, has -- to date -- sold around 300 copies.
That's three effing digits.
Help me here, folks.
Don't just be sweet and kind and buy extra copies of this book. That doesn't help me the long run. No -- I am begging you to talk about the book to others. Mention it to everyone you know! And tell them to mention it to at least one person!
If at least one new person heard, and they in turn told one more person...
It would help a whole damn lot.
Please, use your infinite power of free speech for me.
If you need various online bookstore links, here they are. Note: I am not excluding Amazon (though I sympathize with all my heart with all my friends who are Macmillan authors) since I simply cannot afford to limit my book's already limited exposure....
Barnes & Noble
Amazon
Kindle E-Book Edition
Amazon UK
Amazon CA
Amazon FR
Amazon DE
Amazon JP
Books-A-Million
BookFinder
Borders Australia
Powell's
Blackwell
Waterstone's
Chapters
AddAll
Buy.com
The Book Depository
IndieBound
Official Mummies Website
. . .