[LMB] (news) More TSK chapters posted at Eos, signing tomorrow at Hugo's

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

Laura Gallagher celticdragonfly at gmail.com
Sat Oct 21 02:11:19 BST 2006
   

Lois Herself wrote:
 > http://outofthiseos.typepad.com/  for their new blog.
 >
 > Interesting: the front page of the HarperCollins website proper has a
 > counter showing the book pages most visited, among all their offerings.
 > When the chapters first went up, your visits boosted _Beguilement_ to
 > the #3 slot, for a day or so.  This was considered a very good thing by
 > my editor, as it brought the book to the startled attention of more
 > folks in-house than just her.  So do, do, keep that URL circulating!
 >
 > 
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061137587/The_Sharing_Knife_Volume_One/excerpt.aspx

So - would it a be a good thing if we were go to to that URL each day?

How about the blog URL?

Laura Gallagher


***  Heh.  The first might be cheating, not to mention fudging the 
data.  Not that I didn't immediately think of it, being Miles's Mom and 
all.  Now, if folks want to pass the URL along to a new person (or 
people) every day (or oftener), that would be primo.   Or visit it to 
re-read the chapters, that would be legit.

    Content!  Real content!  Book sales are so often at the mercy of 
their packaging, all of which is done by someone other than the author.  
Sample chapters are about the only PR trick I know of where the book 
gets to speak for its ownself, unmediated by anyone else's ideas of what 
might work.

    By all means visit the blog next week when I will be guest-posting.  
They also have a nice squib up on it tonight about the NYTimes placement.

    Ta, L.


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