Support an Author Month: Shyness in the Marketplace
If you would rather devote your energy to writing than struggle to promote yourself, risking being openly criticised, this is for you. As someone who hates reviews, would rather read posts than comment and abhors bombing social media streams with book promotion, it touched me. I am nodding my head and agreeing: all I want is for my work to touch someone and resonate with them.
Just after the Boston Marathon bombing, writer and musician Amanda Palmer gave this talk on writers, shyness, the “wild west” of the Internet marketplace. It is a poignant finale to Support an Author Month. You don’t have to be formally recognised for your work to have value; and that should never detract from your joy in being a writer.
Go shout down to your marketplace and do it with pride.
Amanda, thank you.
Amanda Palmer on the Muse in the Marketplace
My apologies for being unable to embed this video. It’s a WordPress thing.
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