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Comment by Graveside Tales on August 26, 2008 at 6:53pm

Chris right below the books you see the words Discussion Forum. Below that you see my icon and Marketing For Dummies. Started by Graveside Tales Aug 25. Click the Marketing For Dummies by my icon otherwise you are posting on the comment wall.

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Comment by Chris Perridas on August 25, 2008 at 4:40pm

Totally confused Grave.

I clicked on it and all I see is this (what am I doing wrong?):

Marketing For Dummies
Posted by Graveside Tales on August 24, 2008 at 6:33pm in Marketing For Dummies

Back to Marketing For Dummies Discussions

First off it is my intention to bring together tips and ideas on how to take your sales to the next level. We will delve into how to monetize your writing through various methods.

Before we begin let's a look at recent blog entry posted by Brian Keene.

On self promotion
Posted in Advice For Writers on August 7th, 2008 by Brian

Yes, I know I said there wouldn’t be many new posts this week. We’ve been busy. However, Mike and Mikey went to Gettysburg today, and Coop was studying, and I had a bit of free time this evening. I was lurking on the Horror Mall forums, and I posted this in response to a question about new authors and self promotion, and thought it was worth a repost here.
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Comment by Graveside Tales on August 25, 2008 at 7:09am

Hey guys click the Marketing For Dummies started by me 12 hrs ago. That's actually where the discussion starts ;-)

We kick things off with a short read by Brian Keene.

Comment by Chris Perridas on August 25, 2008 at 6:27am

Jack, those are some great insights. I'd heard you had to work your own book as hard as you can since you have minimal support by the publisher - I suppose they're cash strapped like the next guy.

Comment by Michael J. Hultquist on August 24, 2008 at 1:52pm

Bring on the marketing!

Comment by Chris Perridas on August 24, 2008 at 12:25pm

Now this is my kind of discussion. Marketing is a weak area and I need to soak up as much as I can.

I do have a desire to have more Chris Perridas out there and garner more notoriety.

However, for a few years I've been working at marketing my Lovecraft blog. Not for profit, but just to be entertaining and cultivating a readership.

To date I average about 2500 reads per month and use Statcounter, technorati, google analytics for stats and have started a google group that currently had 43 members. I feel good about where I am, but I'm nowhere close to numbers pulled down by other Lovecraft "sites". My only advertising to date has been in Dark Recesses Magazine and at Horror Mall. I have a hard time justifying continuing expenses on this.

I also have a blog for "antiquarian weird tales" and "weird beasts" the latter being very family oriented. I've blogged for +Horror Library+ for a few years now, too.

I'm doing book reviews at Horror Mall and keep a high profile posting there. Recently I became an associate editor of Arcane Wisdom, a new imprint of eldritch weird tales and other older horror story writers.

As to my writing (other than the few thousand posts I've done on , I've been in an anthology, print magazines, on-line magazines and have about 100,000 reads on my horror and ghost stories at +HL+.

I'm honestly stuck on where to go next. Since 2002 I feel like I've done everything to market myself short of quitting my wonderful day job and going full time.

What's a part timer to do to further exposure?