This Corona Virus stuff has all but shut down my efforts in getting out the book. One reason being; it is a self published book. The Industry considers self-published books as a device of the wanna-be class of writers. Perhaps practice for the real thing.
Seeing the self-publishing world from the inside for the last few years, I have seen how self-published Authors are marginalized. I can certainly understand, having seen and read many self-published books in the past. It is more of a dream mill than a publishing experience. More of a cash grab from the companies that offer these services than anything else. These companies offer up an Author dream and then try to fleece you all along the way. In the end, you get a nice bound book and no marketing.
Without marketing there is no story. Self published Authors are left to their own devices to sell their book or pay to have a few sold here and there. I figured this out completely with my last book; A Curb Caste Experience," a book that got not one bad review from anyone that read it. As a matter of fact, people told me they couldn't put it down....
But this time I formulated my own marketing scheme to which the Pandemic has said... uh... no.
This past weekend I went down to my old haunt Tombstone, Arizona. I lived there for a couple years while I recovered from my injuries (explained in the the book). Tombstone has several events every year fashioned on the old West. Tourism is the only industry in Tombstone. I went there to hand out books and talk to people but out of the 5000 or so people that were there (and many more on their way), I saw just 4 people wearing a mask, and they were being berated like they were on a school playground.
It was a "super spreader" event so I left town around noon as the traffic entering town backed up.
I was still able to give out a couple dozen books but it was fairly disappointing.
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