I have a five month old and I want to be a published author, but I don't want to leave my baby. Is that possible? Please no joke answers, those are really annoying. Thanks!
2007-10-03 01:41:21 · 4 answers · asked by mommy07 2 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Sure. Obviously, not doing publicity tours could affect the overall sales of whatever it is you wrote, but there are ways to get around it and still be pretty successful...telephone interviews, online streaming videos, press releases, etc.
2007-10-03 02:08:36 · answer #1 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, publicity tours are part of the way to make your book a success. Just imagine, there are millions of books out there, and your book is just one of millions. It's bad enough when authors and publishers use regular publicity gigs to get your book noticed. How would it be if there was hardly any publicity?
The fact is, book publishers are running a business. If your book doesn't sell, they would have lost their investment to get your book out in the first place. Then, if your book doesn't sell, you'd probably not get much royalties anyway. In this case, why would you want to self-publish?
The ONLY way in which you don't need to go for publicity interviews, is when you sell an electronic version of your book. If you are able to utilize the internet as a marketplace for your book, you can market it online. All you need to do is to generate traffic.
By combining offline and online book marketing strategies, authors get the best of both worlds, and make the most out of their book.
2007-10-03 10:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by Samantha Tang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably can not get away from it until you reach the very top of the field. If the publisher were certain that the book will sell no matter what.
Until then, it's very likely that your contract will oblige you to help publicize. So it they want you to go on a book tour, you'll have little choice.
Of course you could seek a publisher who will not insist on such a thing. But then you are cutting down your chances of actually being published.
2007-10-03 08:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by Robert K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is, although it would certainly help to use the phone to do interviews that way.
Most authors don't have to worry about too many interviews; it's not like a vast majority go on 20-city book tours. If you can get a baby sitter for the odd signing close to home, that would work pretty well.
2007-10-03 22:58:46 · answer #4 · answered by wdx2bb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋