"I won't let you let me down so easily."

[greygirlbeast]

Wonderful, booming thunderstorms out there. Lightning. Thunder. Hard rain. The dregs of Isaac, that storm come all the way from West Africa to die above New England.

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Now, COMMENTS!

Yesterday, I spent hours searching for a story for Sirenia Digest #81, and found "Our Lady of Arsia Mons." Then I wrote a mere 596 words. But I'll do better today

Comments

[martianmooncrab]

Aunt Beast's Salt Marsh Home Companion

.. first you stake them down in the bog..

[vulpine137]

Do you club them in the head or garrott them first? No wait, that would be a Peat Bog Home Companion.

[vulpine137]

Hmm, you're providing a free service out of the goodness of your heart/spleen/kidneys, and it's late, I must rant and demand things. Oh wait, that's kind of boneheaded, and not in the 'skull keeps the brainmeats safe' kind of way. So let me change my response to...can't wait, looking forward to beasty podcasting goodness.

[greygirlbeast]

Well, free or not, I like to keep my promises. And I hate being late (usually).

[ext_1304255]

I'm totally doing my best to sell TDG:AM to everyone I know who likes that sort of thing, and having the trailer does help (except it makes me wish for a movie and that won't happen). But honestly, I only ran across that trailer by googling your name (meaning I had already gotten 99% of the way there by knowing who to look for), and seeing it embedded on your site. It isn't linked from any of the big book selling places, that I know. Thus it's something only discovered by people who already are driven to look. (I learned of the book myself via social media, people I trusted praised it.)

Also, I am like you in hating all-carnivore RPG settings. I once tried to imagine a world that could have dragons - it would need herds of tens of thousands of elephant sized creatures, and room for them. Perhaps a low-metal rock cored world, pulling at one gee, but much larger? Of course, not having much metal is going to affect the setting too...

[greygirlbeast]

I'm totally doing my best to sell TDG:AM to everyone I know who likes that sort of thing, and having the trailer does help (except it makes me wish for a movie and that won't happen).

Thank you. But I'm talking about overall sales figures.

But honestly, I only ran across that trailer by googling your name (meaning I had already gotten 99% of the way there by knowing who to look for), and seeing it embedded on your site. It isn't linked from any of the big book selling places, that I know.

Pretty sure its up on some obscure corner of Amazon and/or Penguin. But my publisher might have lied. Publishers do that.

Thus it's something only discovered by people who already are driven to look.

Which gets back to all the available evidence, which indicates book trailers are inefficient ways of selling books.

Perhaps a low-metal rock cored world, pulling at one gee, but much larger?

Oh, don't get me started on planetary mass, gravity, and atmosphere. But nice to see that someone else thinks about these things.

[ext_1304255]

On Amazon.com and on Amazon.co.uk, it's not on your author page, or on the hardback, paperback or Kindle pages for TDG:AM. If they hid it, I don't know where.

I think as ways to sell books, first-chapter-free beats a film trailer both for effectiveness and (blatantly) for ease. Not to mention, both Google books and Kindle have mechanisms to support it as distinct downloads which provide an easy upgrade path to the full book.

But as an artform in itself, that trailer and associated photoshoot are beautiful, and enhanced the book for me (even if it did disabuse me of an assumption I had made, I thought Abalyn was black).

[ex_kaz_maho]

Mmmm... mac and cheese. I love it when the top gets burnt and crispy.

[greygirlbeast]

Well, me too. But we don't make the baked sort. Just Kraft and Annie's stovetop.

[ex_kaz_maho]

I'm sure that's lovely, too! We don't have that here but I know what it is.

[greygirlbeast]

My local comic book shop finally got their shipment of Alabaster: Wolves #5 last Wednesday.

Better late than never.

What a wonderful mini-series.

Thank you!

I really would love to see an on-going monthly series with Dancy.

Talk to Dark Horse.

Ain't that the truth?

Yup.