Controlling Your Destiny

Sep 20, 2008
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by: Steve B. (webmaster)

Clint, I have to admit, your post left me exceedingly curious. I found myself wondering: am I reading the wisdom of a self published author who is actually making a living at the game? There's a certain air about you that makes me think you actually might be!

(If you feel like alleviating my curiosity, please feel free to reply.)

Perhaps my curiosity is overly American, but supporting one's self with what one loves or is driven to do is, for many, the holy grail.

I'm curious also about the international aspect of your marketing. The sage self publishing advice so often is to be realistic and focus on a very distinct - and limited - market. It sounds as if your focus is teen's worldwide.

If it's working, wow! We'd all like to hear more!

I also notice that there seems to be another self published author by the name of Clint Adams, peddling some rather prurient material. I wonder how much aggravation that is causing you!

A couple notes about your site as seen on my browser, Firefox 3.0:

*There's text hidden behind your picture on your home page
*There's a calendar on your blog page that looks a mess

And speaking of your website, I've seen about the 'net that your category is sometimes described as visionary fiction, and that you've embraced the term. May I make a suggestion?

There's a fair amount of material on the rest of this site about creating content to attract the search engines. It occurs to me that if you embraced the term Visionary Fiction on your website, devoting a page or three to it, you'd likely attract some traffic for the term. (Google reports 210 searches a month for it.)

A site offering information primarily on Clint Adams and his books tends to attract traffic for searches about Clint Adams and his books. That means people almost have to know about you already in order to be sent to your site.

If you were to add content on VF, you could attract traffic from folks that don't know about you but would likely want to!

Just a thought. If you find it compelling, here's an article on one way to do it: adding a genre book list to your site.

Hope to hear more from you!

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Sep 20, 2008
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Submitted by: Steve B. (webmaster)

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Clint, I have to admit, your post left me exceedingly curious. I found myself wondering: am I reading the wisdom of a self published author who is actually making a living at the game? There's a certain air about you that makes me think you actually might be! (If you feel like alleviating my curiosity, please feel free to <A HREF="http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/controlling-your-destiny.html">reply</A>.) Perhaps my curiosity is overly American, but supporting one's self with what one loves or is driven to do is, for many, the holy grail. I'm curious also about the international aspect of your marketing. The sage self publishing advice so often is to be realistic and focus on a very distinct - and limited - market. It sounds as if your focus is teen's worldwide. If it's working, wow! We'd all like to hear more! I also notice that there seems to be another self published author by the name of Clint Adams, peddling some rather prurient material. I wonder how much aggravation that is causing you! A couple notes about your site as seen on my browser, Firefox 3.0: *There's text hidden behind your picture on your home page *There's a calendar on your blog page that looks a mess And speaking of your website, I've seen about the 'net that your category is sometimes described as visionary fiction, and that you've embraced the term. May I make a suggestion? There's a fair amount of material on the rest of this site about creating content to attract the search engines. It occurs to me that if you embraced the term Visionary Fiction on your website, devoting a page or three to it, you'd likely attract some traffic for the term. (Google reports 210 searches a month for it.) A site offering information primarily on Clint Adams and his books tends to attract traffic for searches about Clint Adams and his books. That means people almost have to know about you already in order to be sent to your site. If you were to add content on VF, you could attract traffic from folks that don't know about you but would likely want to! Just a thought. If you find it compelling, here's an article on one way to do it: adding a <A HREF="http://www.shared-self-publishing.com/genre-book-list.html">genre book list</A> to your site. Hope to hear more from you!

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