{"id":153,"date":"2010-07-25T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2010-07-25T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T13:32:30","slug":"on-print-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/07\/25\/on-print-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"On print\u00a0promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murray Ewing has an interesting long account of promoting his Alice at R’lyeh<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n

“…different subcultures have very different attitudes to self-publishing. In the UK comics scene, there is a thriving self-publishing community, which sees the fact that something is self-published as a genuine plus-point. It actively welcomes the diversity of the sort of things people produce when they\u2019re let loose on their own. Other areas, though, see self-publishing as an active minus-point, if not an outright automatic rejection. Searching for places to send a review copy of Alice at R’lyeh to, I often came across \u201cno self-published work\u201d notices, which started to annoy me as much as the \u201cno fantasy, science fiction or children’s fiction\u201d notices you find in The Writers & Artist\u2019s Yearbook list of literary agents.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally I have distant but strong roots in comics and SF fandom, and a more recent interest in artists’ books and print-on-demand. So I see self-publishing — if done with care — as perfectly fine and as adding a nice frisson of authenticity.<\/p>\n

Ewing usefully points to the fannish conventions as places to sell. But unless you’re going anyway, then the travel + ticket + table costs would seem likely to drain any profit from your sales. For instance, the annual Fantasycon<\/a> is not far from me. But to attend would cost me around \u00a3250 for the weekend, even before a table in the dealer’s room. Sure, if I took 100 copies and pestered everyone there to buy a copy, I might just<\/em> break even and cover my costs. But that’s no way to enjoy a convention.<\/p>\n

I concur that AdWords is a waste of money. Even if you can craft a good ad and target some niche keywords, it’s a futile exercise to spend \u00a35 to get 12,000 impressions a month, which yeilds about 8 clicks and no sales. eBay is certainly one of the main ways to go for genre and genre-linked print material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murray Ewing has an interesting long account of promoting his Alice at R’lyeh… “…different subcultures have very different attitudes to …<\/p>\n

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