a talent for writing doesn't translate to a talent for marketing

[Worth reading for those who want to understand the Amanda Hocking story - and why she is changing! And considering the conflict between writing and publisity - will readers be the ultimate losers?]

The problem is that a talent for writing doesn't translate to a talent for marketing
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/32866
http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/03/29/writer_sell_thyself/index.html
'...Hocking ...[has]...complained more than once about the trouble she's had finding freelance editors capable of catching the typos and grammatical errors that keep turning up in her novels....'
'...Even if the next generation's "To Kill a Mockingbird" gets published, the author's inability to promote it effectively may prevent it from reaching the millions of readers who would otherwise embrace it...., I want the writers whose work I admire to have as much time as possible to write as many books as they wish. ....'
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/author-driven-marketing-what-is-an-introvert-author-to-do/





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