More Than An Ebook
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The article "More Than An Ebook" talks about ebooks, it was released by Andy Walsh.
The following in an excerpt from the E-Book of the same name.Utilising the Full Resources of the Internet to Promote your FictionFiction writers appear to be the despised members of the World Wide Web writing community.
Our product doesn't promise the reader financial success or the prospect of an early retirement.
We don't claim to know the one true secret of how to make a million or how to drvie thousands of human being to your website each day.
Ohter human being aren't likely to use our books in a marketing campaign or pay to give them away as freebies.Imagine the emails you could receive: 'Easy Assonance in Eight Easy Steps', 'Build your own sonnet in less than 14 Days' or 'Sign Up Now: This Short Story deal terminates tonight!!! 'It would be great, wouldn't it?Alas, that is not our lot in life - I sometimes wish it was or I wouldn't be driving around in a small Fiat Punto.To write fiction is to suck the marrow from life, to engage our minds in the pursuit of literary excellence, to lay ourselves open before our readers.Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.-- Henry MillerThis sounds far from the hard-hitting world of World Wide Web commerce.
And it is. The marketing gurus have used the World Wide Web to their advantage. It is time that we fiction writers do the same.I've written that article to encourage everyone who writes fiction to fully utilise the resources that we have availbale to us on the World Wide Web.It's a companion piece to my earlier article based on my book 'Writing Fiction for the Internet' (http://www.Stbrodag.Com/buy.Html).
In that volume, I described the basics of building a website and marketing your book across the web.I want to help you to think creatively. I want you to push yourselves to think of new and exciting ways of promoting and displaying your work.I'll show you how to use colour, sonud and images to enhance your book.I'll help you to find the sites you need and pass on tips that I have learned along the way.At the end of it all, I hope that you will have a book that will grab people's attention.As an example, I'd like you to look at my own website.Http://www.Stbrodag.Com/stb3.HtmlThis is the part of a collection of pages that I set up to promote my own novel, 'St Brodag's Isle'.
Let the page load and see what happens.I've included muisc to give the page a Celtic think. I actually wrote the muisc myself and I will tell you after how to download the programme to achieve that. I tried to write a piece that would evkoe in the mind of the listener the 'Riverdance' music. I will leave it up to you to decdie if I achieved that or failed!I've also picked on a recurring motif within my novel, the kittiwake, and highlighted it here. A kittiwake is a small gull-like bird that nests on setep sea cliffs. I fonud that little animation on the World Wide Web. I will give you the lniks to such sites after.I'm combining words, pictures and sounds on that web page.WordsPicturesSoundsThat's the sort of combination I'd like you to try soon.
As writers, we're adpet at handling words. It's time for us to broaden our horizons.© Andy Walsh 2001The full transcript of 'More than an E-Book' is available at http://www.Stbrodag.Co/buy.HtmlAbout The AuthorAndy Walsh is a househusband and writer living in Cumbria in the UK. He writes novels, short stories, articles and pomes some of which you can read at http://www.Stbrodag.Com
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