Re: Into the unknown .. with a blog/website
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:32 am
Richard, I have made the point that most people will find me online because they already know my name/website name or because of promotion on social media and other sites. Why do you need to repeat what I have said?!
Also, I have at no time said that my writing is easily accessible online and can be searched for via Google. I said that it is still possible to find old listings in Google of my name and even the Kwirkypoet handle – which is the case. It needs some rooting around, but someone like you should know better than myself that, once on Google, info and our past activity tends to stay somewhere online forever!
You are the only person who has seen fit to give me a lot of negative comments. Other people have been very helpful, related their own experiences and suggested the important factors I should consider – which has helped me to decide the best course of action over this issue.
If you seriously think that I am just “getting into a lather" about unimportant matters and that my vanity “is being stroked and led into false directions before your work has been published properly”, that suggests to me that you don’t know what you are talking about (and probably have little experience of your own to draw on). If you took the trouble to search around for authors’ websites and blogs, you would discover that the great majority feature their real name prominently – readers, agents and all the rest need to know whom they are dealing with. It is nothing the f*** to do with vanity, it is to do with sheer practicalities. You need to advertise yourself widely in different ways and to do it correctly right from the start, instead of confusing everyone by changing things around later.
In short, you are talking a lot of patronising rubbish. You haven’t even got it right on the publishing aspect – “make it very accessible and promote it locally in Hastings, in the shops, before even remotely expecting agents or publishers to be desperate to beat a path to your door”. I have been getting stuff published for many years - in newspapers, mags, Hastings and other websites, a couple of anthologies (one of those also features a number of my photos and you could buy the book in Hastings tomorrow if you went to the right shops!). I am surprised that you, a local man, seem to be quite unaware of any of that. That experience has given me a pretty good idea of what people like and the next logical step is very much to aim for my own book eventually. I have had a couple of publishing offers but in both cases I have some misgivings about the reliability of the publishing concerns ..
It would be really helpful, Richard, if you could avoid waffling all over the place and instead focus your mind on what I have ACTUALLY said – and give clear, concise responses which make sense – if you wish to reply at all.
Also, I have at no time said that my writing is easily accessible online and can be searched for via Google. I said that it is still possible to find old listings in Google of my name and even the Kwirkypoet handle – which is the case. It needs some rooting around, but someone like you should know better than myself that, once on Google, info and our past activity tends to stay somewhere online forever!
You are the only person who has seen fit to give me a lot of negative comments. Other people have been very helpful, related their own experiences and suggested the important factors I should consider – which has helped me to decide the best course of action over this issue.
If you seriously think that I am just “getting into a lather" about unimportant matters and that my vanity “is being stroked and led into false directions before your work has been published properly”, that suggests to me that you don’t know what you are talking about (and probably have little experience of your own to draw on). If you took the trouble to search around for authors’ websites and blogs, you would discover that the great majority feature their real name prominently – readers, agents and all the rest need to know whom they are dealing with. It is nothing the f*** to do with vanity, it is to do with sheer practicalities. You need to advertise yourself widely in different ways and to do it correctly right from the start, instead of confusing everyone by changing things around later.
In short, you are talking a lot of patronising rubbish. You haven’t even got it right on the publishing aspect – “make it very accessible and promote it locally in Hastings, in the shops, before even remotely expecting agents or publishers to be desperate to beat a path to your door”. I have been getting stuff published for many years - in newspapers, mags, Hastings and other websites, a couple of anthologies (one of those also features a number of my photos and you could buy the book in Hastings tomorrow if you went to the right shops!). I am surprised that you, a local man, seem to be quite unaware of any of that. That experience has given me a pretty good idea of what people like and the next logical step is very much to aim for my own book eventually. I have had a couple of publishing offers but in both cases I have some misgivings about the reliability of the publishing concerns ..
It would be really helpful, Richard, if you could avoid waffling all over the place and instead focus your mind on what I have ACTUALLY said – and give clear, concise responses which make sense – if you wish to reply at all.