No I have not joined the tweeting throngs...I’m too busy for that...that’s why I like Jane Friedmans Friday posts called ‘I watch twitter so you don’t have to”
There are some interesting links...here’s one that will be of interest to a few people who are planning on attending the Spinning Gold conference. (programme up on Friday hopefully)
Mark Coker of Smashwords has a great interview up with Sramana Mitra, an indie author on 'How authors can build their personal franchise.'
Mark Coker of Smashwords has a great interview up with Sramana Mitra, an indie author on 'How authors can build their personal franchise.'
This interview shows what can happen when the author embraces the new digital age....here is a little taster of the interview...but go and read the rest...
[Sramana Mitra] - Entrepreneurs often bootstrap their way to proving their concepts, and then follow up with additional financing from investors. Authors can think of it the same way. Develop your concept. Bootstrap. Build a blog. Write books. eBooks. Columns. Build a platform. Build a franchise. Build a following for your work. Then, if you like, you can also get to work with regular publishers and get additional leverage. This is how I operate.
And for all the geeks out there...
Astro Mike is twittering from space. He is on the mission updating the Hubble Telescope...the last of the shuttle missions to do this. The shuttle fleet is retiring in 2010...what will they do then, I wonder.... (and so do many thousands more)
Right back to work on the conference.....
maureen
Pic is from www.drawingcoach.com
2 comments:
What I like about Twitter is that I can sync it to update my Facebook and Myspace profiles when I tweet (I could sync my blog as well if I wanted). So, for both book-promotional and general purposes, it does several things at once. I'll follow you if you join!
(Hmmm - do I sound like a salesman here, or what? Have I become addicted to Twitter already?)
Tim, how much use is Myspace and Facebook? I ask because I wonder how much 'social media' hype is just hype...being up with the Jones's(heheeheh)
if you have to be on blogger myspace facebook twitter....to make an impact on your book sales.....
what say you?
Post a Comment