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2000 BOOKS!!!

2000!

The number two with three zeros after it.

This is amazing everyone. Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my cold, dead writer’s heart (where all your favorite characters are killed for my amusement).

Such a monumental event deserves a monumental story...or at the very least...a stupid one. So here is the story of a stupid thing I recently did.

In my third or fourth year of college working toward a theatre degree, I took a class called Career Prep for the Actor in which my teacher really encouraged me to be a writer (because...my acting skills were so good.) Toward the end of this class, she asked us all to say one goal we would like to achieve in our career: a role we’d like to play, starting our own theatre troupe, that sort of thing. When it came around to me I said that I would like to go into a bookstore [full disclosure: I said Borders. RIP], find my book on the shelf, and buy it. Everyone laughed. "If you write a book, you won’t need to buy a copy of it."

I had to admit...they had a point. What I said was kind of stupid.

STUPID LIKE A FOX!!!

THAT’S RIGHT FORMER CLASSMATES! WHO’S STUPID NOW, HUH? WHO’S STUPID NOW? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(A: Still me)

Thank you to the staff at Unabridged Bookstore here in Chicago for humoring the weird bald guy who wanted his picture taken at checkout.

In other news:

Our Fair City, the audio drama that I write for, had it’s Season 7 launch party this weekend. It was the biggest affair to date with a giant replica of the in-story Dr. Montgomery Moro Memorial Museum and Historical House. For more about the event, check out my blog post with pictures and links to the audio tour made specifically for the launch. Also, stay tuned to Our Fair City on iTunes as one of my episodes should be coming up pretty quick.

And finally, as we pass the 2000 milestone, I can’t help but look forward to the next thousand books. Or hundred books. Or ten books. Look another person might want to buy my book, but the most likely way they’ll find out about it is by you spreading the word. And the easiest way to spread the word is to leave a review on Amazon. So if you haven’t composed a written review for the book yet, please, take a moment and do so.

Here I’ll even link you there through the magic of technology.

Once more with feeling: everyone, THANK YOU.

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I don’t know that the three month window is true. I’m still in that window for The Life Engineered and while heavy promotional efforts have died down after launch I don’t think that, as long as the book is on their platform, Inkshares will ever really stop pushing the book. Keep in mind that they don’t need to sell that many copies of a book before they gather the financial benefits of a paid service the likes of which you describe.

Also, this opens the door to writers complaining about paying for a service but being dissatisfied when it doesn’t meet their expectations. I see this coming from writers who may not have a full understanding of how important their own involvement in promotion is, even after publication.

Bottom line: As long as the book is on Inkshares, they have a vested interest in that book selling copies, so I imagine that promotion will be a continuous effort regardless.

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