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Talking points
- Marketing ourselves in every moment/editors and agents and readers are watching, wear, dress, speak, what you say, don’t say … how open, how closed off …
- James’ writing conference story
- Thomas’ Courtship Story
- Not Everyone Has Ears to Hear
- Don’t Respond in Kind
- What did James do wrong? Nothing.
- Personality styles
- The way James used to be …
- Give yourself freedom, accept the fact not everyone will like you
- This applies to readers as well … The Princess Bride
Wrap up
- Remember, you’re marketing in every moment
- Accept the fact you won’t connect with everyone
- Concentrate on what you do have, not what you don’t
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Amen! Loved the topic and your brilliant advice. I found myself scrambling for paper to take notes. “People treat you the way they feel about themselves.” “Hurt people will hurt people.”
I am going to look at criticism so differently in the future. Great to have you guys back! 🙂 Love the podcast and the personal stories that make it so relevant.
Great podcast. I especially found the advice about controversy helpful. I get more hate for my novel in an hour than the Pope gets from the Nuclear Blast record label. I’ve found a weird technique that actually encouraging the hate by phasing it as genuine thanks for “honest criticism” takes the mystique away from trolling and leaves no reward in it for them, so people leave neutral feedback out of spite (lol). Anyway, probably a long shot, but my pen name is Team Wingless and I wrote a novel called Crisis Core. Cheers!
Good podcast.
I’d add another point which is perhaps more relevant to fiction than to Courtship in Crisis (sorry, Thomas). Just because someone doesn’t like your book doesn’t mean they don’t like you. I can think of several authors who I like and respect based on what I’ve seen of them online, but I don’t necessarily like their book/s. I’m happy to promote these authors, but would rather not review them because my review would be the dreaded three-star (at best).
Conversely, I’ve also come across authors whose online persona rubs me the wrong way to the point I’d have to consider carefully before buying their book/s.