Comments on: Selling Your Book

By: The False Divide « Every Poet Needs A Patio

The False Divide « Every Poet Needs A Patio — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:37:54 +0000

[...] have a look at Quincy’s hilarious advice on selling your poetry book. That should cure you of your Nobel intentions. My fiction-writing friends with their agents and [...]

By: robinkemp

robinkemp — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:55 +0000

Hilarious! One more reason to go on living…that you might write another entry like this one!

By: Weftmoss Strang

Weftmoss Strang — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:45:43 +0000

Love it. Can all of us born poets all stop writing now, content we can do no ill?

By: Glenn I

Glenn I — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:00:26 +0000

Brilliant!

By: Stuff Culled from Nic « Scavella’s Blogsphere

Stuff Culled from Nic « Scavella’s Blogsphere — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:31:08 +0000

[...] Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008. Filed under: 1 | Selling Your Book « The Belletrist. [...]

By: Barbara S

Barbara S — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:13:42 +0000

Oh Quincy, I had a good laugh reading this. Why do we keep at it, sometimes I do wonder. Still, it could be worse.

By: ella

ella — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:01:36 +0000

Ah, something to look forward to.

By: yikes « Very Like A Whale

yikes « Very Like A Whale — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:00:32 +0000

[...] August 24, 2008 at 7:00 pm (publication) Why does anyone bother? [...]

By: Ernie

Ernie — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:47:12 +0000

There are many ways to sell your books. Here are some ideas.
1. Become leader of some country and make your book mandatory reading for all citizens. This worked with the Little Red Book.
2. Start a religion and make your books required reading for all your converts. This worked pretty well with the Bible and even with LRH fiction.
3. Include your poetry in a vital user manual for a computer system and imbed the instructions necessary to run the computer in your poems as hints. Actually some modern computer books seem to be written like this already.
4. Invent a new game or cross word puzzle in which the answers are fill in the blanks from your poetry. This worked quite well for the fellow with the cube and with suduko.
5. Become a political activist and write the manifesto in poetry.
6. Talk to a cereal company and get them to put your poetry on ceral boxes. This might require winning several gold medals first.
7. Embed your poetry in comics, songs, fortune cookies or some other treat like Jorge Cham: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
8. Start a web site in which people can post their poetry, charge a fee and slip your poetry in as advertising. This sure worked well for http://www.youtube.com. I bet you would be surprised at how popular such a site would become.
So see there are ways but you have to be creative.
The other way is to be a teacher and slowly but surely your fame will grow as your students graduate and become poets.

By: Mathew James

Mathew James — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:48:04 +0000

Great post, it was very informative. I think its a must read.
http://www.expertwriters.net/