Tom Goes Live!
The soft-launch is now over and the Tom Corven Project will make its way into the world!
In preparing to leave Croatia, I have been asked to appear on an English-speaking radio show tonight. Excellent practice for the big push in the coming weeks.
The plan is flexible, but will entail a week's preparation - printing leaflets and distributing them outside book stores and libraries from town to town and city to city around the country. Not only will this spread the word about the project, and hopefully build momentum, it should give the books a small edge when they eventually appear in stores.
A good friend, John Simnett - one of many I've made in Split - has offered to be my base-man while touring the UK. This is great news. I know he is extremely enthusiastic about what I'm doing and he loved the story so much that he is one of 3 over here who have bought an SE. Better still, he is a successful entrepreneur and adventurer and a genuinely nice guy. I couldn't have asked for a greater start and I'm now itching to get over to the UK to push on.
On the sales side, we now have 10 SE orders - $5,000.
One of those sales came from Aaron who, for some reason, unknown to him, decided to visit the dreamwords site after listening to the cast 8 months ago! He saw the project through a quirk of fate and immediately jumped in.
Another sale came from a fellow writer and fan of TC, who spent three years holed up in a very basic cottage in Ireland; writing a novel with the encouragement of a leading London agent. When he finished, the said agent was too busy to read it! Unfortunately, we hear so many of these stories and this one is a good example that illustrates why I'm reluctant to tread the traditional route to finding a publisher.
I've got a small and very strange problem regarding reviews - one that I'm really pleased to have. Anyone who mails to tell me that they loved TC, I now ask if they would consider posting a review. This has been so successful that there are eight fantastic and honest reviews at the store in Lulu. Outstanding! But I wonder how many people will think I've got my friends to fake them. In fact the only one of those 8, I've met before is my friend John mentioned above. I must stop tempting fate and enjoy it while I can. You can read the reviews here
Thank you to everyone for your encouragement and support.
In preparing to leave Croatia, I have been asked to appear on an English-speaking radio show tonight. Excellent practice for the big push in the coming weeks.
The plan is flexible, but will entail a week's preparation - printing leaflets and distributing them outside book stores and libraries from town to town and city to city around the country. Not only will this spread the word about the project, and hopefully build momentum, it should give the books a small edge when they eventually appear in stores.
A good friend, John Simnett - one of many I've made in Split - has offered to be my base-man while touring the UK. This is great news. I know he is extremely enthusiastic about what I'm doing and he loved the story so much that he is one of 3 over here who have bought an SE. Better still, he is a successful entrepreneur and adventurer and a genuinely nice guy. I couldn't have asked for a greater start and I'm now itching to get over to the UK to push on.
On the sales side, we now have 10 SE orders - $5,000.
One of those sales came from Aaron who, for some reason, unknown to him, decided to visit the dreamwords site after listening to the cast 8 months ago! He saw the project through a quirk of fate and immediately jumped in.
Another sale came from a fellow writer and fan of TC, who spent three years holed up in a very basic cottage in Ireland; writing a novel with the encouragement of a leading London agent. When he finished, the said agent was too busy to read it! Unfortunately, we hear so many of these stories and this one is a good example that illustrates why I'm reluctant to tread the traditional route to finding a publisher.
I've got a small and very strange problem regarding reviews - one that I'm really pleased to have. Anyone who mails to tell me that they loved TC, I now ask if they would consider posting a review. This has been so successful that there are eight fantastic and honest reviews at the store in Lulu. Outstanding! But I wonder how many people will think I've got my friends to fake them. In fact the only one of those 8, I've met before is my friend John mentioned above. I must stop tempting fate and enjoy it while I can. You can read the reviews here
Thank you to everyone for your encouragement and support.
posted by Paul Story at 3:44 AM
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