tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post7337946176896781423..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Give me your brain! Advise me...Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-41552908582772383082010-01-13T23:04:34.095-05:002010-01-13T23:04:34.095-05:00I have sent you an email, Marly.I have sent you an email, Marly.MBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-48694633568615667772010-01-12T08:15:08.152-05:002010-01-12T08:15:08.152-05:00Dave,
I have no doubt that the poets in "qar...Dave,<br /><br />I have no doubt that the poets in "qarrtsiluni" and other online magazines find more readers than any paper publication. <br /><br />Things may develop in such a way that there are multiple paths to poems--eventually you will no doubt have a fetish object of your own! I wouldn't be surprised if we have more limited edition, beautiful books accompanying online marlyhttp://www.marlyyoumans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-73342837226104075002010-01-11T23:47:51.628-05:002010-01-11T23:47:51.628-05:00Read Write Poem is conducting a mini blog tour wit...Read Write Poem is conducting a mini blog tour with eight participants for qarrtsiluni's chapbook by Pamela Johnson Parker next month; I'll let you know how it goes. I suspect that Pamela herself has done the bulk of the selling so far.<br /><br />200 copies, eh? Depending on how many of those copies are going to libraries, it sounds as if my approach of publishing poems in a blog reachesDavehttp://www.vianegativa.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33784425181458555702010-01-11T20:57:28.992-05:002010-01-11T20:57:28.992-05:00Oh, I'm not adverse to both. I'm just figu...Oh, I'm not adverse to both. I'm just figuring out where to put my eggs, how to divvy up my time.<br /><br />Yes, and I am doing the summer thing at Hollins and one at Wofford, so there's two college links...<br /><br />A reading using Paypal? Who would come? I guess maybe you could tie it to...something.<br /><br />Good thoughts!marlyhttp://www.marlyyoumans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-74855714683999577332010-01-11T20:49:17.304-05:002010-01-11T20:49:17.304-05:00Why not both events AND Internet? And I wouldn'...Why not both events AND Internet? And I wouldn't say you had absolutely NO college links. First of all, I think Hollins would always be glad to have one of its own. I'm at a college, but unfortunately, they don't have money for lecturers, or hardly any. I could ask R about the University, but he doesn't really have connections in the creative writing department, and I have only Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-16367475418403331082010-01-11T19:33:06.709-05:002010-01-11T19:33:06.709-05:00Make that seven.
And another question...
I got a...Make that seven.<br /><br />And another question...<br /><br />I got a letter in response to this from a friend down South whose poetry book is doing very well. He did 15-20 events for that one and thinks events are still the thing to do. Does anybody else have experience with recent events (versus going with internet events, etc.)?<br /><br />There seems to be a gulf between people who lean Yet another questionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-14550045373735777622010-01-11T19:20:45.170-05:002010-01-11T19:20:45.170-05:00Robbi,
zephyr (blogger-photographer-gardener) gav...Robbi,<br /><br />zephyr (blogger-photographer-gardener) gave me a lot of very specific ideas relating to the fact that my books tend to be (do they tend? sometimes I think they don't) to be curious in regards to flora (as "Val/Orson" set in and sometimes under trees). So the interesting thing about that is the idea of taking a non-normal track, to find something else of interest inmarlyhttp://www.marlyyoumans.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-9649122914643375562010-01-11T18:26:02.906-05:002010-01-11T18:26:02.906-05:00Marly,
I am very curious about these ingenious ide...Marly,<br />I am very curious about these ingenious ideas involving horticulture and gin, but the parties seem to me promising. People will come to a party if you feed them, rather like selling Tupperware or those cooking implement parties. You can do a reading at someone's home, make a salon of it, and sell books that way, but it's less effective and more labor intensive than doing it Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-4938964708130900122010-01-11T15:55:59.025-05:002010-01-11T15:55:59.025-05:00Okay, sold five books-to-be. If that could only ha...Okay, sold five books-to-be. If that could only happen every day, I'd be ready for books to come out...<br /><br />Vicki J and Paul T,<br /><br />Thanks for the perfectly brilliant ideas via email. Feel free to post any you want to share!<br /><br />zephyr, <br /><br />The horticulture ideas are sheer genius.<br /><br />Paul,<br /><br />That's a lot of ideas. Shall have to mull the Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-4845341737555446582010-01-11T13:14:34.060-05:002010-01-11T13:14:34.060-05:00OK...got a couple of crazy ideas...you told me i c...OK...got a couple of crazy ideas...you told me i could. <br /><br />i do believe we have to take matters into our own hands.<br /><br />will send crazy thoughts in an email.vicki johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564450760405974595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-50593544774533625862010-01-11T11:45:41.079-05:002010-01-11T11:45:41.079-05:00Thanks, everybody! 3 copies is a start!
Kristen,
...Thanks, everybody! 3 copies is a start!<br /><br />Kristen,<br /><br />That was very helpful, very interesting. Intractable problem meets knowledgeable person...<br /><br />Clare,<br /><br />I'm with you on the exhausting and sometimes demoralising bit--it's great when it's great, not when it's not.<br /><br />Robbi,<br /><br />Good advice. I don't think I am a "fantasy Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-2707673033694092912010-01-11T11:37:23.970-05:002010-01-11T11:37:23.970-05:00I like all of Kristin's comments, and I too wo...I like all of Kristin's comments, and I too would like to reserve a copy of the book. But I am alas also a writer and probably even more prone to hiding my light under the proverbial bushel than you are, so I don't know. I'd love you to visit my blog! What a nice idea, though I don't know if it would help because there are so few people who read it (bushel again). <br />Readings Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-79695665910893880942010-01-11T11:36:05.196-05:002010-01-11T11:36:05.196-05:00Oh, and reserve me a copy, please!Oh, and reserve me a copy, please!Clare Dudmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06197558842580794165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-14299897625453992292010-01-11T11:35:31.198-05:002010-01-11T11:35:31.198-05:00Excellent advice from Kristen!
I've heard g...Excellent advice from Kristen! <br /><br />I've heard good things about blog tours but I suspect that the novelty of those has now worn off. <br /><br />I sold a lot of books by travelling around and sending out letters offering talks. Maybe, as a poet, you could offer workshops. I found it exhausting and somewhat demoralising, but I'm contemplating doing it again.Clare Dudmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06197558842580794165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-81395880785663165492010-01-11T11:26:38.744-05:002010-01-11T11:26:38.744-05:00Hello friend!
It won't hurt to do a book trai...Hello friend!<br /><br />It won't hurt to do a book trailer, but I'm pretty sure it won't help either. Back when I was still in book marketing, I examined this road and found all the trailers out there to be lacking - both in quality and in views on YouTube - even the ones for huge, well-funded bestsellers like Jodi Picoult and Dean Koontz. <br /><br />I believe the one instance whereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com