Buy My Book

[jimhines]

Buy My Book
by Jim C. Hines
(To the tune of “Be Our Guest,” with apologies to Disney)

Congratulations to you, brand new author,
on the publication of your masterpiece.
And now I invite you to stop, step back, and listen
as readers throughout the world beg you: Please don’t be…
That Guy.

Buy my book!
Buy my book!
Just a dollar on your Nook!
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Comments

[tuftears]

I'm an amateur editor! I wonder if that'd work too. ^_^

Bad writing makes me twitch-- incomplete sentences, wordiness, and the like. Must... get... red pen!

Self-Published books ...

[thesfreader]

I'm no editor, pro or otherwise, and I read quite a lot of self-published books. I also sometimes (for my best loved "legacy authors") buy "traditionally" published ebooks).

I must admit that I find in average more problems in self-published ebooks than in "traditionally published ones.
However, there are wide variations in both domains, and I find that some self-published authors manage to consistently do better than average traditionally published ones, and find some traditionally published ebooks worse than self-published average...

Last dud to date was Intruder by C.J.Cherryh.

There is also that single instance of self-published ebook that was CLEARLY in GREAT need of editing, typos, typographic errors, formatting, bad writing habits, whatever you want... and still, with all these problems, the book managed to capture my attention all along...
Even after two crowdsourced edits, I guess it still need a good editor, but regardless of that all, it still is one of my best reads of 2011.

[jimhines]

I am a steampunk version of the clock, with extra gears and steam-powered machine guns mounted on my shoulders. And also goggles, because you know, steampunk.

[midnightblooms]

And instead of Beast, we'd have Cybeast. Disney just begs to be steampunked.

Also, you and this song made me smile today.

[deborahblakehps]

Tee hee. In my Everyday Witch A to Z Spellbook," I wrote a spell (Jerk Avoidance) that was an homage to Dr. Seuss. You'd like it :-)

[jimhines]

Seuss' stuff is so much fun to play with, isn't it? :-)

Try this one: http://jimhines.livejournal.com/467074.html

[deborahblakehps]

It is! And I like to show that spirituality and magic doesn't always have to be so *serious* lol. Sort of like you and writing. (That is what you're trying to show us, right? right?)

[jimhines]

It can be very refreshing to take a break from the serious, yes :-)

"That is what you're trying to show us, right?"

Sure! (That sounds much better than, "Actually, I just like writing nose-picking jokes...)

[chris_gerrib]

I resemble these remarks.

/Signed

An Author With a New Book Out

;-)

[jimhines]

I think we all want to sell our books, and new authors do tend to get enthusiastic about it. I definitely did. But nothing I've ever seen from you has suggested anything like this kind of inappropriate pushiness.

[chris_gerrib]

I was being a bit of a smart-ass.

But damn, I do *want* to stand around waving my book! I just resist the urge.

[jimhines]

Oh, I understand. You think it's easy for me to not blog EVERY SINGLE DAY about Libriomancer, which comes out in EXACTLY 125 DAYS??? :-)

[tithenai]

This is AWESOME.

And freaking me out because I woke up with the original in my head.

[jimhines]

DISNEY IS BEAMING THEIR SONGS INTO OUR BRAINS!!!

[phantom_wolfboy]

You didn't know about that? They've been doing it since 1967, They use Walt's frozen brain as a focus.