Chatting and Signing and Selling, OH MY!
I'll bet anything that when you wrote That Novel, be it romance, mystery, crime, sci fi, western, chick lit, mainstream whatever you never thought you'd be a salesman.
Nope.
You are an Artist. You Create. You are Above the Fray. Not inclined to Enter the Yammering Hoards.
Let someone else handle that, slightly unpleasant task. The Selling.
For those of who have cut our professional teeth on selling, this part is pretty easy. I sold "warm fuzzy feelings" as a United Way acolyte for several years right out of college, armed with my English degree and a "anything but teach" mentality as relates to my career. Then, I worked in non profit fund raising, event planning, donor schmoozing--the real hard sales of sales.
THEN I sold myself as a marketing consultant a few years until the golden moment when one of my architect clients said to me: "You are really good at this. You should get your real estate license." I did. And I did it well.
As many of you really good followers know, I was approached about applying my aforementioned sales skills to a new venture. A craft microbrewery in a sea of same. So I jumped, about the same time I leapt into writing erotic romance.
I've been clamoring to be heard above the fray ever since.
Figures I would take the leap into 2 highly (newly) popular venues at the same time.
But I slog on, relentlessly seeking opportunity for book promotion, beer promotion and otherwise shameless self promotion. To that end I did a fun thing today: a "Spreecast" for a "virtual book signing thanks to my INCREDIBLY CREATIVE NEW PUBLISHER
Tri Destiny.....Click here for submission guidelines.
All you newbs and rooks and folks with manuscripts floundering on slush piles: you owe it to yourselves to polish up your subs and send them in to these folks. They are bound and determined to find all the tricks, use all the tools, work all the angles so that you are not left to flounder around in your new role as "book salesman." Because like it or not, that is what you are.
That brings me to the gist of my post here. To Agent, or not to Agent?
I have had a fair bit of success and 2012 promises to be pretty sweet in terms of releases (and yet more book selling on my part). But is it time to step up? Do I NEED the assistance of an agent? Are the "big 6" still the only legitimate path to success? Can an agent take me the next step or is it a waste of time?
I know, I know, it all depends on what I want. On my goals. On my dreams.
I will tell you flat out: I want to write a book, or a series of books that gets optioned for either a premium cable series or a movie. And within all the loud, clamoring, yowling throng of "romance/chick lit/semi-mainstream sexy novels" out here, is the only way to be truly heard via the mouthpiece of Another?
I wanna know.
have a good night chickens.
Liz
Nope.
You are an Artist. You Create. You are Above the Fray. Not inclined to Enter the Yammering Hoards.
Let someone else handle that, slightly unpleasant task. The Selling.
For those of who have cut our professional teeth on selling, this part is pretty easy. I sold "warm fuzzy feelings" as a United Way acolyte for several years right out of college, armed with my English degree and a "anything but teach" mentality as relates to my career. Then, I worked in non profit fund raising, event planning, donor schmoozing--the real hard sales of sales.
THEN I sold myself as a marketing consultant a few years until the golden moment when one of my architect clients said to me: "You are really good at this. You should get your real estate license." I did. And I did it well.
As many of you really good followers know, I was approached about applying my aforementioned sales skills to a new venture. A craft microbrewery in a sea of same. So I jumped, about the same time I leapt into writing erotic romance.
I've been clamoring to be heard above the fray ever since.
Figures I would take the leap into 2 highly (newly) popular venues at the same time.
But I slog on, relentlessly seeking opportunity for book promotion, beer promotion and otherwise shameless self promotion. To that end I did a fun thing today: a "Spreecast" for a "virtual book signing thanks to my INCREDIBLY CREATIVE NEW PUBLISHER
Tri Destiny.....Click here for submission guidelines.
All you newbs and rooks and folks with manuscripts floundering on slush piles: you owe it to yourselves to polish up your subs and send them in to these folks. They are bound and determined to find all the tricks, use all the tools, work all the angles so that you are not left to flounder around in your new role as "book salesman." Because like it or not, that is what you are.
That brings me to the gist of my post here. To Agent, or not to Agent?
I have had a fair bit of success and 2012 promises to be pretty sweet in terms of releases (and yet more book selling on my part). But is it time to step up? Do I NEED the assistance of an agent? Are the "big 6" still the only legitimate path to success? Can an agent take me the next step or is it a waste of time?
I know, I know, it all depends on what I want. On my goals. On my dreams.
I will tell you flat out: I want to write a book, or a series of books that gets optioned for either a premium cable series or a movie. And within all the loud, clamoring, yowling throng of "romance/chick lit/semi-mainstream sexy novels" out here, is the only way to be truly heard via the mouthpiece of Another?
I wanna know.
have a good night chickens.
Liz
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