A Few of My Least-Favorite Things … · 8:43pm Nov 1st, 2018
Advertising.
Don’t get me wrong, advertising is a great way to get eyeballs on my work, and by association, cash into my bank account . Advertising is a must-have in the modern world, since well, everyone else has it. With so many shouting voices out there, simply standing with your product hoping to be noticed is akin to being buried.
But while I enjoy the fruits of my advertising, actually coming up with ad-copy tags and little blurbs to attract the eye? Worst part of the job so far.
I’m not alone in this. No joke, I’ve heard one prominent author state that one of the best parts about being a huge success was that they no longer had to come up with ad-copy blurbs or even have anything to do with the advertising process. They just sent the book over and that was that. Maybe occasionally they’d get a question they had to answer to help their advertising agent market something a bit more specifically, but that was it. They could just pass it off in exchange for money.
I long for that day, and find myself very much in agreement on coming up with ads and the like. Unfortunately … I’m not where that author is yet. Given their particular position, I’ve got a long ways to go, really. Which means that right now …
As much as I want people to read my material, I’ve long known that writing would for me be more of a hobby and less of an income stream, even when publishing original fiction. As such, I don’t know if I’d bother even knowing my material would be buried. But if I ever decide to make a serious go at it, at least I’ll already have an idea of how crummy an experience it will be.
But I live with no expectation of ever quitting my day job to be a writer. Retirement excepted, of course.
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Or ... it'll turn out you don't mind it at all, and can write an ad-copy in minutes that sells a hundred or more copies.
It varies. I've heard from some authors that do exactly that because they enjoy it.
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Hmm... maybe? I've never been bothered by the task of writing story descriptions, so I'unno.