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Are you one of those author types who will get up this morning and check all your promo loops to see where you can pimp your book? Or are you on that fancy promo loop that reminds you daily where you can pimp your book, how often, and what the rules are?
I’m that person. Or at least I used to be, but I’m starting to wonder about all those yahoo groups. I’m on a few…ok…57. *blush* But in the past few weeks I have started going no mail on a lot of them. A girl’s got to wonder how many books are you really selling to other authors? This whole promo thing has me mind-boggled. Speaking to other authors, how many books do you read a month? I wish I could give you a number that was double-digits, but I’m lucky to read one book a month.
So who is on all these promo loops and blogs? Is it other authors (who may or may not be buying books) or is it truly the beloved readers? I know what you’re going to say “Writers are readers, too”. Aren’t you just a little curious as to how many of those 2,464 members on Romance Junkies Readers are really readers and how many are writers?
So what’s your opinion? Are we all just a group of writers pimping our books to each other and no one is really buying?
Here is a list of “some” of the groups I belong too.
CataNetwork-Authors
CataNetwork-Readers
CataNetwork-Writers
Chatting_with_Joyfully_Revi...
cupidslibraryreviews
dangerouswomen
heathersromancebookclub
HHRWGen
HRCRomance
karenfindoutaboutnewbooks
LoversofRomance
novelsisterhood
PromoOnly
Promotion_Loop_Schedule
RomanceCafe
romancedivas
romanceexcerptsonly
RomanceJunkiesReaders
romancingthepast
RosesColoredGlasses
RWRpirates
SeducedByHistory
The_Haunt_at_PNR
theromanceroom
welcometotemptation
writerspromotips
Thanks for reading!
Kim
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Kimberly Killion
HER ONE DESIRE ~
RITA Finalist - Best First Book
National Readers Choice Awards Finalist - Historical Category
HIGHLAND DRAGON ~ October 2009/Zebra Books
http://www.kimberlykillion.com/
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Hi Kimberly! What a great topic to blog about. I`m on a lot of loops, too, and I find myself going to no-mail more and more. I love my loops, but it`s starting to feel like it`s taking me away from my writing.
ReplyDeleteAs far as promo goes, my debut book came out this month, so I`m feeling really burned out. I did a lot of promo, but not so much to my loops. I would post that I was guest-blogging, but only if I thought the topic might be of interest to people on the loop. The one exception was my goals-in-a-month group, which is a small group of writers who know each other well. Oh, wait. Another exception: the Zebra readers loop.
Doing promo to writers loops doesn`t feel very productive to me. Don`t know about loops like Romance Junkies, though. I would love to know how many people on the readers loops aren`t writers!