The Plan
So, the plan is to continue with the readings for the Virtual BookTour... point people to the Paypal link to pre-order a signed copy of Fuel in advance of publication, keep refining the book tour readings, and promote the podcast to all those eager new iPod owners in the week after Christmas... and keep working on edits throughout January.
The projected publication date of Fuel is February... I dunno, sometime in February. I'll figure it out later. I think perhaps I should time it out with other publication dates. Or maybe not. If I can get all the text edits done in January, I might as well publish the book then. I am, after all, an independent publisher, and I can do as I please.
So there.
The main thing is to have all the supporting elements in place -- have the website up and functional. Have the buy links up and functional on the website as well as the blog, and mention them in the podcasts of the book tour readings. Have the press release(s) written and ready to roll out via the online press release services I use. Have the tracker gif in place on the Fuel blog (done) so I can track what kind of interest people have. Make sure the blog is submitted to the appropriate directories. Make sure the site is also cross-referenced from multiple locations, so I can get crawled and included in the major search engines. Oh, and of course, notify the local media that there's a celebrity in their midst.
Mustn't forget the local media.
Oh, and travel websites and magazines. Send out press releases to them, as well.
I really think the virtual book tour is going to pique a lot of people's interest. Now, I just need to be able to put together compelling enough performances on the readings, as well as augment them with questions and answers, so that people will want to come back and listen to more readings later on.
No sense in doing all of this, if I'm just going to annoy and alienate people.
The projected publication date of Fuel is February... I dunno, sometime in February. I'll figure it out later. I think perhaps I should time it out with other publication dates. Or maybe not. If I can get all the text edits done in January, I might as well publish the book then. I am, after all, an independent publisher, and I can do as I please.
So there.
The main thing is to have all the supporting elements in place -- have the website up and functional. Have the buy links up and functional on the website as well as the blog, and mention them in the podcasts of the book tour readings. Have the press release(s) written and ready to roll out via the online press release services I use. Have the tracker gif in place on the Fuel blog (done) so I can track what kind of interest people have. Make sure the blog is submitted to the appropriate directories. Make sure the site is also cross-referenced from multiple locations, so I can get crawled and included in the major search engines. Oh, and of course, notify the local media that there's a celebrity in their midst.
Mustn't forget the local media.
Oh, and travel websites and magazines. Send out press releases to them, as well.
I really think the virtual book tour is going to pique a lot of people's interest. Now, I just need to be able to put together compelling enough performances on the readings, as well as augment them with questions and answers, so that people will want to come back and listen to more readings later on.
No sense in doing all of this, if I'm just going to annoy and alienate people.
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