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Think like a marketer.

August 3, 2010

Lately, I’ve talked with a lot of artists, mostly writers, who have no idea how to market their book. This isn’t news, of course! Artists, in general, hate to sell their stuff — it’s one of the reason that publishers exist. (No need to go into how bad a job most publishers are doing — [...]

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Why people may not be buying your erotica…

April 26, 2010

In the previous post, I talked about my initial shyness about buying erotica online. Even though it was totally private, and I wasn’t truly embarrassed about my reading habits, it still gave me pause to make the change from “anonymous coward” to someone with a name on a credit card. Now, I’m going to talk [...]

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Writing fanfiction — why do they care about what you do?

April 12, 2010

I can understand some authors’ negative attitudes about fanfiction. They clearly feel threatened in some way — creatively, legally, morally, or financially. Whether their feelings and arguments are irrational doesn’t matter; I accept the validity of the perceived threat. Anne Rice and Orson Scott Card, two authors who have been outspoken about fanfiction, are entitled [...]

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