Keep the authors in it a deathly secret, start an ARG for people to figure out who will be in it
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 12/06/2010 05:47:10 PM
(ARG= Alternate Reality Game, blurs line between the game and reality)
So... start a website. Make it a blog, ostensibly someone's blog about making birdfeeders or something. Pepper it with hints that the creator just makes birdfeeders in his spare time, and really is a peon in the World's Best Fantasy monolithic machine.
Hint at a dark conspiracy.
Use codes, clues, links to other websites, so that people can slowly learn who the authors are going to be in the book (and perhaps the titles?)
Oh, and get it started off by making a cool/overblown Youtube book trailer like Terry Goodkind always does... and at the end of it, with no explanation, just put www.feedthebirds.net or something.
So... start a website. Make it a blog, ostensibly someone's blog about making birdfeeders or something. Pepper it with hints that the creator just makes birdfeeders in his spare time, and really is a peon in the World's Best Fantasy monolithic machine.
Hint at a dark conspiracy.
Use codes, clues, links to other websites, so that people can slowly learn who the authors are going to be in the book (and perhaps the titles?)
Oh, and get it started off by making a cool/overblown Youtube book trailer like Terry Goodkind always does... and at the end of it, with no explanation, just put www.feedthebirds.net or something.
I amuse myself.
Fun, imaginative exercise on bookselling
- 11/06/2010 12:25:07 AM
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post it somewhere then get a lot of people to write really good reviews about it? *NM*
- 11/06/2010 12:30:54 AM
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Change the name to "Buy this Book or Die a Fiery Death in Forty Days" *NM*
- 11/06/2010 12:33:55 AM
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And then start a chain letter e-mail. But are the increased sales really worth selling your soul? *NM*
- 11/06/2010 01:06:13 AM
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*NM*
Re: Depends. How much is your soul worth? One brother? One bestseller?
- 11/06/2010 11:39:58 AM
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Not likely 
- 11/06/2010 01:07:28 AM
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- 11/06/2010 01:07:28 AM
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"Best American Fantasy" sounds like "Regular Detergent"
- 11/06/2010 02:03:57 AM
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It's based on Best American Short Stories
- 11/06/2010 03:18:47 AM
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BASS? You mean THE BASS? Never heard of it. Sounds like "Potato Chips".
- 11/06/2010 05:49:37 PM
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put the word vampire in it somewhere *NM*
- 11/06/2010 02:19:51 PM
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- 12/06/2010 08:28:12 AM
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- 12/06/2010 08:28:12 AM
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A few (probably bad) ideas.
- 11/06/2010 05:32:31 PM
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Tell everyone that this book will be what the book club is reading.
- 12/06/2010 02:33:51 PM
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Keep the authors in it a deathly secret, start an ARG for people to figure out who will be in it
- 12/06/2010 05:47:10 PM
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Put Ellen on the cover. Runs risk of suit, but probably gets you on her show either way. *NM*
- 15/06/2010 10:27:57 PM
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