Comments on: Showdown http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2006/10/03/showdown/ Confessions of a Photographer... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:38:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: The Micro Edition at Rasmus Rasmussen dot com http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2006/10/03/showdown/#comment-159 The Micro Edition at Rasmus Rasmussen dot com Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:07:38 +0000 http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2006/10/03/showdown/#comment-159 [...] I’ve previously explained why, I do not wish to take the route of self-publishing with my novel, but what you see here is a picture of a printed version of my new book side by side with some of the notes from writing it. Confused? [...] [...] I’ve previously explained why, I do not wish to take the route of self-publishing with my novel, but what you see here is a picture of a printed version of my new book side by side with some of the notes from writing it. Confused? [...]

]]> By: MaryQContrary http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2006/10/03/showdown/#comment-141 MaryQContrary Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:44:29 +0000 http://rasmusrasmussen.com/2006/10/03/showdown/#comment-141 Congratulations on getting through the third draft. That's quite an accomplishment and a true test of endurance. I work in a bookstore and can tell you that a lot of the tricks of self-publishing that used to work don't anymore. Everything keeps changing so fast, and the very good advice of yesterday is rotten advice today. My friend Jeff self-published and did most of his promotion through the internet. He actually offered the book as a free download at first. Once he had 5,000 downloads it was much easier for him to approach publishers, and Warner snatched him up quickly. John Grisham sold his firt published novel from the back of his car, but I think the same thing can be done with internet these day, so long as the presentation is like a movie trailer with Flash and all that hoo-ha. Check out www.jeffrivera.com to see what he's done. With your rooting on iStock you have a lot of resources to chose from in creating something just as tantalizing. Best of luck with this. Congratulations on getting through the third draft. That’s quite an accomplishment and a true test of endurance.

I work in a bookstore and can tell you that a lot of the tricks of self-publishing that used to work don’t anymore. Everything keeps changing so fast, and the very good advice of yesterday is rotten advice today.

My friend Jeff self-published and did most of his promotion through the internet. He actually offered the book as a free download at first. Once he had 5,000 downloads it was much easier for him to approach publishers, and Warner snatched him up quickly. John Grisham sold his firt published novel from the back of his car, but I think the same thing can be done with internet these day, so long as the presentation is like a movie trailer with Flash and all that hoo-ha. Check out http://www.jeffrivera.com to see what he’s done. With your rooting on iStock you have a lot of resources to chose from in creating something just as tantalizing.

Best of luck with this.

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