2 Responses to Some Fantastic Lessons

1. Mark says:

   September 29, 2012 at 3:24 pm

   Thanks for the heads up. I don’t have her bookmarked, but find myself at her site more and more frequently.

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2. J.A. Marlow says:

   September 30, 2012 at 6:38 pm

   Wow, mention the “S” word and they come out of the woodwork. On two mailing lists I’m on writers are getting out of Select right and left as it’s no longer working for them. But, the vocal few that it does still work sure make it seem like it’s still good to go and STAY exclusive (and are quitting jobs and retiring on ‘goosed’ and afterglow numbers that are going to fade except for a few lucky few. Yeah, that’s long-term thinking), yet I see the same names come up with all of the yells. Just a note to everyone here, they are not as big in number as they seem. Just loud.

   (I’m not talking about using a promotion short-term to make an impact on the full catalogue. I’m talking about taking everything down from everywhere and going exclusive. That’s just nuts and in the long run only helps Amazon.)

   I do find it sad that the Select rabid debate took over when there are so many other points in Kris’s post to discuss.

   Such as production numbers? I find it interesting the various ways writers use to track those production numbers for themselves to keep motivated and moving forward. What is the average yearly word count of the people reading the post?

   How are people organizing or reorganizing themselves to produce more? What kind of fun stories are they going to tell in this new world where we have a (potentially, if you don’t block them) global market?

   Or how about what new opportunities are opening up that are so new that most of us don’t know about them? What companies, what languages, what countries? What stories are selling more in one than another (I always find tales about that fun to read)?

   “No traditional publisher has ever capitalized on my built-in audience.” <– Now that's an interesting comment. So, how about discussing that? What are people doing to do this themselves beyond the obvious of writing more similar stories?

   What are the long-term plans of those who read here? How are you planning to remain flexible for the changes that are sure to come in the business in the next 5-10 years? Those changes will come as the business is in flux. That's something I would like to see more examples of and discussion. To see what others are doing, to learn and observe so I can tweak what I'm doing to make my plan stronger.

   So many other things to discuss. :sigh:

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