PublishingReinvented 46 - Sleep Plotting + DIY vs D4U Book Marketing + $60 Coupon Code
Sleep Plotting
I get stuck occasionally on where a novel should go next. One of the best ways I have found to unleash creativity is to think about the story when you are either drifting off to sleep or just waking.
I have often come across good ideas at these times and have to leap from the bed to find a notebook to write them down or to find the pen that has fallen somewhere. It is guaranteed, of course, that if you fall back to sleep that your wonderful idea will be gone forever when you awake.
As my latest book involved researching the quantum world, I have come to speculate that our brains are a quantum device, creating thoughts the way quantum particles pop into existence. That link on those last few words is to the scientific evidence of this bizarre phenomenon. I will have to create links in my new novel to the science behind many of the concepts I write about as my structural editor claims I am making it all up! Follow that link to see that’s not true!
Anyhow, when your next plot idea comes to you, as you slowly wake, you can claim it came to you from your personal quantum engine!
Do It Yourself vs Done For You Book Marketing + Coupon
It’s a debate authors have been having for years. Should you do your book marketing yourself or have someone do it for you?
Here’s a Strengths and Weaknesses Assessment of each way of doing things:
Do It Yourself – Strengths
Full control of everything that happens
Day to day control
Learning new technology
Able to change ads quickly
Do It Yourself – Weaknesses
Need to spend time every day managing ads
Need to learn and understand each ads platform
Need to adapt to changing ad technology
No one to blame except yourself
Done For You – Strengths
Full control on spending, as the budget you set can cap your spend
No need to constantly learn new technology
Able to focus on your writing
Faster results by using experts.
Done For You – Weaknesses
You have to wait for an update
Less minute by minute control
Less learning new technology
I don’t believe it’s essential that authors become marketing experts as well as great writers. Some authors are happy handing over their marketing. Others want to learn it all. And there is a spectrum in-between.
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Laurence O’Bryan
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Founder BooksGoSocial & The International Dublin Writers’ Festival