It's interesting to look around and see what other authors do, major names and not. I kinda like finding out that an author's got some free stories available just to see if I like their stuff enough to buy them.
I know some authors keep outtakes and see if they can use them later, so I wasn't sure if this was something else entirely based on her tweets/facebooking. But since it is here, and obviously cleared with the publisher that it's okay to be released, I'm just...I woulda thought that maybe there'd be something like "this didn't make it into the next book, but I liked it enough to keep it and now I'm sharing it with you :D" but there's been NOTHING. It's kinda like asking people to discover fire for themselves rather than Prometheus strolling down from Olympus to gift it to the mortals, some people might figure it out, but for the most part everyone remains in the dark. So there's going to be a lot of people who aren't aware that this book exists, and a lot of those people who would be willing to pay $2.99 for it.
I'm just...I'm really not sure what I should be thinking about this. I feel like someone's possibly dropped the ball in marketing, and that there's some kind of communication breakdown.
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I know some authors keep outtakes and see if they can use them later, so I wasn't sure if this was something else entirely based on her tweets/facebooking. But since it is here, and obviously cleared with the publisher that it's okay to be released, I'm just...I woulda thought that maybe there'd be something like "this didn't make it into the next book, but I liked it enough to keep it and now I'm sharing it with you :D" but there's been NOTHING. It's kinda like asking people to discover fire for themselves rather than Prometheus strolling down from Olympus to gift it to the mortals, some people might figure it out, but for the most part everyone remains in the dark. So there's going to be a lot of people who aren't aware that this book exists, and a lot of those people who would be willing to pay $2.99 for it.
I'm just...I'm really not sure what I should be thinking about this. I feel like someone's possibly dropped the ball in marketing, and that there's some kind of communication breakdown.