I'm sorry, but I couldn't hear you over the size of your sig image.
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As Troy Hickman can attest, we hate it when authors Pimp their own works, like Troy Hickmans Eisner Nominated "Common Grounds", or his Top Cow Pilot Season winner "Twilight Guardian", both of which you can purchase at any fine bookstore near you. Or, if your broke, you can steal* from any fine Bookstore near you.|
Originally Posted by Lycanus
Being a self-published author, would anybody mind if I posted a blurb about my books on this thread. I currently have them on sale and, well, word of mouth is my only avenue of advertisement currently.
Something more specific than the currently larger than it used to be sig picture that is. |
*LiquidX does not in any way endorse the cool crime of stealing.
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unfortunately, in a situation where if I don't do it, nobody will|
Originally Posted by LiquidX
As Troy Hickman can attest, we hate it when authors Pimp their own works, like Troy Hickmans Eisner Nominated "Common Grounds", or his Top Cow Pilot Season winner "Twilight Guardian", both of which you can purchase at any fine bookstore near you. Or, if your broke, you can steal* from any fine Bookstore near you.
*LiquidX does not in any way endorse the cool crime of stealing. |
self-published=self-marketed...but if it's not appreciated, I'll not do anymore than the sig
This is why I ask ahead of time, some sites are of the mind "Please yes! We want more stories to look for!" others are rather hostile to self-promoting as you seem to indicate. Granted, no one has ever commented on my sig before, so I thought it would be okay to ask.
Granted, I'd really love for my situation to be parallel to Troy Hickman's, but he's got an agent (I believe) and people advertising his stuff for him. I've got, well, me and word of mouth. My actual best trafficked site (ff.net) completely disallows advertising your own stuff, so I'm not able to really inform the 6k visitors a month there about my original works.
In any case, I thought I made a polite request for where this site stands on this. (I remember asking permission from one of the Red Names before putting in my Sig) And I was expecting a polite response back.
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It's a joke. Hickman loves plugging his work. The secret is to plug it in a charming and humorous fashion, possibly even ironically criticizing your own books. If the threads that held them still existed, I'd link some of The Pantsless Wonder's posts on the subject as examples.
tl;dr version: Yeah, plug away, just don't go all infomercial on us.
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ah, my apologies then, I failed to note the humor, I'll try to be less defensive from here.
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Originally Posted by Manofmanychars
It's a joke. Hickman loves plugging his work. The secret is to plug it in a charming and humorous fashion, possibly even ironically criticizing your own books. If the threads that held them still existed, I'd link some of The Pantsless Wonder's posts on the subject as examples.
tl;dr version: Yeah, plug away, just don't go all infomercial on us. |
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Lycanus, I say plug away! The worst that can happen is that it will be "disappeared." But I think if we can run threads here that are appropriate to the section (which this is) and which can help our CoH brethren, more power to 'em. And if I can help with the plugging, let me know.
P.S. I have no agent, unfortunately, and probably 90% of the "advertising" I get is what I myself create by being a ubiquitous and probably quite annoying figure on the internet.
Troy Hickman - So proud to have contributed to and played in this wonderful CoH universe
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Yeah, I heard the University frowned on the whole "body paint advertisement" while lecturing.
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Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Lycanus, I say plug away! The worst that can happen is that it will be "disappeared." But I think if we can run threads here that are appropriate to the section (which this is) and which can help our CoH brethren, more power to 'em. And if I can help with the plugging, let me know.
P.S. I have no agent, unfortunately, and probably 90% of the "advertising" I get is what I myself create by being a ubiquitous and probably quite annoying figure on the internet. |
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Ahhh, I think I was confusing you with Hickman of Dragonlance "fame". My apologies to you for that, no one should be so compared.|
Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Lycanus, I say plug away! The worst that can happen is that it will be "disappeared." But I think if we can run threads here that are appropriate to the section (which this is) and which can help our CoH brethren, more power to 'em. And if I can help with the plugging, let me know.
P.S. I have no agent, unfortunately, and probably 90% of the "advertising" I get is what I myself create by being a ubiquitous and probably quite annoying figure on the internet. |
Except maybe Greenwood (for fiction, not campaign design...his campaign design is awesome...fiction...less so)
Anyway, I put out a plug on this forum under the title "Bystander"
I actually have five books right now (three novels, a short-story anthology and a campaign guide) split across three world settings.
Bystander being urban-fantasy/superhero, Greenwater being High-Fantasy and Zodiacs being Wu-Xia Western.
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It's not your fault. I really should have realized that someone new might not get the joke (Personally, I love how Troy promotes his own work, which is why I take every chance to pimp it myself). So really, my bad.
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Originally Posted by Lycanus
ah, my apologies then, I failed to note the humor, I'll try to be less defensive from here.
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Being a self-published author, would anybody mind if I posted a blurb about my books on this thread. I currently have them on sale and, well, word of mouth is my only avenue of advertisement currently.
Something more specific than the currently larger than it used to be sig picture that is.
Thrythlind's Deviant Art Page
"Notice at the end, there: Arcanaville did the math and KICKED IT INTO EXISTENCE." - Ironik on the power of Arcanaville's math