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Comment by Shawn Lamb on April 17, 2012 at 12:47pm

Interesting. I haven't used the 'music video' approach, but I do have book trailers and with Hollywood experience, try to make them movie-like in appearance and music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dXW5Mt7JYA

Comment by Judith Marshall on April 17, 2012 at 12:33pm

Take a look at the innovative approach to book marketing my friend Birgit Soyka has taken.

http://judithmarshall.net/using-a-music-video-to-promote-your-book/

Comment by Shawn Lamb on April 17, 2012 at 10:20am

Oh, yes, Olga, I remember the writer's strike. My husband and I worked as scriptwriters in Hollyweird - I mean Hollywood. :) 

There is a shift in the market going indie. I was grateful when my publisher passed on the rest of my series. However, the ramp-up in indie authors is one reason Amazon opened up KDP Select to self-published authors - to corral that market also.

Yes, it gives many a platform, but what is the difference of being exclusive to Amazon as to another publisher? Distribution! At least with a publisher or remaining independent - an author can sell on other outlets. Not with Select.

All authors need to look at the bigger picture, not just what can get their book(s) out the fastest. I didn't join Select and urge other authors to do the same. Move from Amazon's exclusively and make the e-book widely available - including on iPad, Sony Reader, Nook. Don't let Amazon push indie authors around like they do others!

Comment by Olga Godim on April 17, 2012 at 10:11am

Great post, Shawn. You're right. In all this fuss about prices and e-readers, the writers are forgotten. We play such a small part in the chain of book publishing, marketing and sales; we get crumbs after all the middlemen get their shares. Why do we still write? What if all the fiction writers went on strike? You remember the Hollywood writers' strike, don't you, and how all the TV talk shows hiccuped? Perhaps we should follow suit. If we don't write, Amazon will have nothing to sell, or they will start selling mugs and towels.

Comment by Shawn Lamb on April 17, 2012 at 9:17am

Apple, Amazon, Publishers & Choosing Sides - An Author's Rant. (I couldn't help myself) http://bitly.com/hfiJoj

Of course this is follow-up to my earlier weigh-in when the topic first broke. Is What Apple Doing Really Wrong?

Comment by Emily Kennedy on April 16, 2012 at 1:49pm

Thank you, Celine!

Comment by Karma on April 16, 2012 at 12:25pm

Hey Kelley,

Oh noes! 404: Your link is broken! I wanted to find out if your story was about aboriginal mythology, or recovery, or what?

Comment by Celine Keating on April 16, 2012 at 12:14pm

Hey, just figure you gave them good stories to tell, and they're probably thrilled someone was so enamored of their work! Meantime, your blog/writing is really lovely - a pleasure dipping in to it. Impressive that you work on the farm and writing!

Comment by Kelley Harrell on April 16, 2012 at 7:55am

Celebrate the second edition, coming this summer -Gift of the Dreamtime: Awakening to the Divinity of Trauma!

Comment by Emily Kennedy on April 16, 2012 at 7:41am

Celine, yes, I have chronicled this amazing farm life in my blog posts.  Look at http://emilykennedyauthor.com.  One essay is called It's Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Out Here.  I talk about the wild vermin we have encountered.  Now the fate of this vermin is not always pleasant; there is destruction & danger with wild critters. I am writing the next post about my husband's and my latest adventure with a coyote.

I also have musings from our porch.  We practically live outdoors on the porches, so much conversation and contemplation goes on there.

I am glad you found humor in my stalking comment.  It makes me feel better!  Now I am laughing at myself.  Before, I was pretty humiliated!  There's just no telling what I told some writers before I figured out that I was sharing waaay too much of myself in those early emails.  Poor Rheta Grimsley Johnson, I'll bet she regretted ever responding to a friendly compliment from a newby writer.  I sucked her in like a tornado.  I was too embarrassed to read the two memoirs I had her sign, too, when I met her at a bookstore in North Alabama.  Someday when I am published, I will assure her and a couple of other published authors that I am not a creeper!

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