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More than an e-book

The following in an excerpt from the E-Book of the same name.

Use of all Internet resources to promote your fiction

Fiction writers seem to be the despised members of the Internet writing community. Our product does not promise the reader financial success or the prospect of early retirement. We do not pretend to know the real secret of how to earn a million or how to get thousands of people to your website every day. Other people are unlikely to use our books in a marketing campaign or pay to give them away.

Imagine the emails you might receive: ‘Easy Sounding in Eight Easy Steps’, ‘Build Your Own Sonnet in Less Than 14 Days’ or ‘Sign Up Now: This Short Story Deal Ends Tonight !!!’

It would be great, right?

Unfortunately, this is not our destiny in life; Sometimes I wish it was or I wouldn’t be driving in a little Fiat Punto.

Writing fiction is sucking the marrow out of life, engaging our minds in the search for literary excellence, opening ourselves up to our readers.

Writing, like life itself, is a journey of discovery.

– Henry Miller

This sounds far from the harsh world of internet commerce. And it is. Marketing gurus have used the Internet to their advantage. It is time for fiction writers to do the same.

I have written this article to encourage all fiction writers to make full use of the resources available to us on the World Wide Web.

It is a supplement to my previous article based on my book ‘Writing Fiction for the Internet’ ([http://www.stbrodag.com/buy.html]). In that volume, I outlined the basics of creating a website and marketing your book on the web.

I want to help you think creatively. I want them to strive to think of new and exciting ways to promote and showcase their work.

I will show you how to use color, sound, and images to enhance your book.

I’ll help you find the sites you need and give you some tips I’ve learned along the way.

At the end of it all, I hope you have a book that grabs people’s attention.

As an example, I would like you to look at my own website.

[http://www.stbrodag.com/stb3.html]

This is part of a collection of pages that I created to promote my own novel, ‘St Brodag’s Isle’. Let the page load and see what happens.

I’ve included music to give the page a Celtic feel. In fact, I wrote the music myself and then I’ll tell you how to download the program to achieve it. I tried to write a piece that would evoke the music ‘Riverdance’ in the listener’s mind. I’ll let you decide if I made it or failed!

I also chose a recurring motif within my novel, the kittiwake, and highlighted it here. A kittiwake is a small gull-like bird that nests on steep cliffs. I found this little animation on the internet. I’ll give you the links to those sites later.

I am combining words, images and sounds on this web page.

Words

Photos

Sounds

That’s the kind of combination I’d like you to try soon. As writers, we are experts in handling words. It is time for us to broaden our horizons.

© Andy Walsh, 2001

The full transcript of ‘More than an electronic book’ is available at [http://www.stbrodag.co/buy.html]

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