When I stated this blog 8 years ago, almost to the day, it was the first blog at Publisher's Marketplace. My goal was to create a place authors and agents and publishers and pr people and website designers and everyone else in the biz could read about and write about what gets buzz.
What works. Why. What doesn’t. Why. What is a waste of time. Of space. What reads like hype. What takes balls but is worth it.
We're making ourselves visible in a way that we haven't been able to do before and we need to be cognizant of the pitfalls as well as the perks.
We need a dialog – a way to share with each other ideas. To brainstorm. With more books being published than ever,new ways to discover them is more important than ever.
I thought Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest would take over from blogs - and in a lot of ways they have but they have limiations we don't have here so I'm going to open the doors to this blog again. And invite anyone with an idea to discuss.
Let’s talk.
Hi MJ,
I think blogs are still effective. Different social media have to be used in different ways. I think authors have to think about each one strategically and target the market they're trying to reach with each one.
The latest method of creating and distributing content is crowdsourcing. Authors and filmmakers are already doing this and succeeding: http://midlistlife.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/indies-still-totally-rock-the-web/
As you can see, if you read the post, I'm doing it with my own mystery series: http://igg.me/p/193358?a=964767
Best wishes,
Debbi
Posted by: Midlistlife.wordpress.com | September 22, 2012 at 05:54 PM