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Research

Book Marketing Client Diary: The First Month

May 10, 2010

If you read this blog, you know I’m a marketer — specifically, a market researcher and profiler (like the FBI, only not!) Though marketers do a lot of different techniques (like SEO, brand-building, copywriting, etc), everything we do originates from the objective of selling more stuff for our clients. That’s the starting point, or should [...]

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The first time I bought an erotic ebook.

April 25, 2010

I was remembering the first time I bought an erotic ebook. When I was “underage,” I would go the library or bookstore to read. I could never check out Delta of Venus and bring it home without my nosy mom poking around, so I would sit for hours with whatever lurid selection I could find. [...]

Tagged as: embarrassment, fetishes, semi-organized thoughts, sexuality, shy

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Wanted for interview: Men who write under female pen names.

April 20, 2010

So, there’s been some discussion about women writers’ need for male pen names. While James Chartrand of “Men With Pens” and some m/m authors have been in the spotlight, I’m more interested in the opposite side… men who assume feminine identities (or ambiguous sounding names.) I know they’re out there. My first writing teacher wrote [...]

Tagged as: james chartrand, men with pens, pen names

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