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Talking Points:
Why do people buy books?
Entertainment
- An substitute to boring evening
Education
- Smart and Sophisticated
- Writing doesn’t matter. Some Assembly Required
- Make a Promise & Over Deliver
Escape (Sci-Fi & Amish)
- One persons escape is not another person’s escape. Amish and SciFi are both escape but for different people. This is why Amish Vampires in Space failed to take off despite being well written.
- The common factor in all three of these reasons is emotion. If your book moves someone emotionally it will continue to sell.
You can rank any book on this scale.
- Shack 10 on education. 1 on entertainment and 1 on escape.
- The Harbinger 10 on education. 1 on entertainment and 1 on escape.
- Twilight – Escape 10. Entertainment 5 out of 10. Education 1 out of 10.
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy- 10 on Entertainment, 5 on education and 0 on escape.
It doesn’t matter what your overall score is. It only matters if you are a 9 or 10 in one category.
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Appreciate your kind remarks about the quality of my book, Thomas. But for the record, Amish Vampires in Space has never technically been “on a shelf” that it could fly off of. 🙂 Marcher Lord Press is a micro-publisher that does nearly all sales through POD and eBooks. Real “marketing” for AViS was virtually non-existent. Much of the buzz has happened organically, with little human planning at all. And sales, at least compared to other books I’ve had published by MLP, have been really quite good. 🙂
Love the mention of the Barnes & Noble hardback books. I’m a little obsessed with building my collection with them. Unlike most people, I do purchase those to read, but not on the go. No food, drink, or backpacks ever touch those books, so they can be pristine after enjoying the story inside. 🙂
I love the rating system, but do you have any tips on how authors can apply it to their own work? You know, before they release it.