NO SUCH THING AS BAD PUBLICITY
Ok, so sometimes after a long, hard day at work I like nothing better than to sit down with a bowl of sugar, dip my toes in it and put my foot in my mouth. The sweetness of it all makes me forget how bitter my foot really tastes.
Yesterday I wrote a post, IGNORANCE IS BLISS, and it seems to have caught the attention of more than a few of you. Somehow that post found it’s way to the eyes of Evo Terra, the head honcho over at Podiobooks.com (my guess is by twitter but I don’t know for sure). Evo re-tweeted my post and thanks to him, my website has received the most hits it’s ever seen in a single day. Some of you left comments, some of you downloaded my promo for THE ZOMBIE CHRONICLES and some of you probably read the post and clicked away hating me. The point is that thanks to one little post, the podiobook community came out in droves to correct me in the error of my ways.
But I still got some ’splainin to do…
First off, thank you to all who took the time to read and comment on the post. It’s nice to know that there are people out there who take an interest at getting involved. I fear though that my words have been taken out of context. When I said that “the podiobook community is very tight-knit and breaking in isn’t easy” I DID NOT mean Podiobooks.com specifically. I was using the term podiobook very loosely and not using it to represent a website. I think Podiobooks.com is the shit and I listen to it all the time.
Aside from Podiobooks.com though, it’s hard to get your work noticed unless you are a master at PR. When I said “tight-knit and hard to break into” I just meant that it’s hard to get noticed as a newbie with nothing more than a website and a microphone. Yes I know that Podiobooks.com is there to help but if there were no such thing, then what would you do? Spend hours emailing and sending promos to other podcasters, taking away from your writing and recording? If that’s what it takes, sure, why not. But it’s hard, hard work and it would be a waiting game to get that break, to get that one other podcaster with a gazillion more listeners than you to play your promo and send others your way, getting your own work noticed.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not above hard work. Not in the slightest. I think podcasting a novel is hard work, but it’s all worth it. I do it (or am going to be doing it) for the sheer pleasure and fact that I love writing and well, I might as well put my degree in radio broadcasting to good use and broadcast what I write also.
I just don’t want any of you thinking that I think the Podiobooks.com community is a ‘closed’ community. I know that’s not what they intend it to be and the very presence of one of Mr. Terra’s phone numbers on my blog proves that. By the way, Evo, if you get a call at 3am…it wasn’t me! I myself hope to join them in the future by submitting my novel there to gain more listeners.
Sometimes it can feel like you’re all alone when you’re really not and it can be frustrating at times. You’re brain envisions the worst and your fears take over and in my case when that happens, I write about it.
Regardless of what you may think of me after reading IGNORANCE IS BLISS, it doesn’t matter. I’m just happy you came to visit and HOPE that you keep coming back to see what’s in store. I kind of like causing a bit of a ruckus every once in a while. Don’t mind me…
Now excuse me while I wipe my foot clean.
