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A friend is working with a new house publicist on their 2014 book release. For obvious reasons I will not name either friend or publisher, but the marketing plan seems to have missed the point that this essay was meant in jest Our Marketing Plan by Ellis Weiner.

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Date: 2013-10-19 03:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com
Yeah, me too, officially terrified O_O

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Date: 2013-10-20 12:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
Publicity is exhausting, especially because no one really knows which bits work and which don't. What works for one author doesn't work for another, the things that seemed fresh and interesting when the first authors did them are now trite and boring... So you get these publicity guides which basically say "Do everything anyone has ever heard of."

I've seen multiple guides to getting published that urge unpublished authors to blog every day and build an online blog brand so they can use that to launch their book. And meanwhile I'm thinking "Maybe instead they should use their energy to write a book worth launching..."

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Date: 2013-10-20 12:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com
Yeah. (My employer publishes an online guide to the self-promotion of scholarly journal articles, which is toned down a lot for the target audience but, within those parameters, does pretty much say "Do everything anyone has ever heard of.")

If there's one thing working in the publishing industry for nearly two decades has taught me, it's that nobody really knows why anything anywhere in the process works or doesn't work (except for the machines and the code: those, we understand).

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Date: 2013-10-20 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vespican.livejournal.com
Not knowing what works sometimes reflects on what we post on line. We post something that we think we be of enormous importance and draw comments from all over, and yet it appears that no one sees it. The next day we put up something trite, just to fill space, and the comments flood in. Go figure.
Dave

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