An E-Mail that Blew My Mind – Second Place in the PubSlush-BookLogix Pitch Contest!

Is this real life? I've been asking myself that for a week now. I entered this contest a few weeks ago. I pitched "The Blue Diamond - An Ivory Razor Adventure." I love this book so much. This means more to me than anyone could possibly know. Hello Peggy, Congratulations! You are the second-place winner …

…Authors, there’s no need to sell yer soul to the Marketing Devil… just get yer promotional balance right… #TBSU…

Since I blogged about something similar last night and I want to believe someday I’ll have the smarts and savvy of this man, I’m sharing this blog. I know, I know I share him more than anyone else but his thoughts are always worth sharing.

Seumas Gallacher's avatarSeumas Gallacher

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…this ol’ Jurassic scribbler has been referred to more than once in the past as a ‘balanced Scotsman’—with a chip on each shoulder... that’s as may be, but I know for certain I’m a kinda 0% or 100% person in most of my undertakings… NUTHIN in between… when I threw the decision switch about five years ago to be a writer, it was of the 100% commitment variety… and I’m LUVVIN IT!… I keep bleating on about the ‘business of writing’, acknowledging that the creative writing part is just one element of the whole process… and prob’ly, comparatively, the easiest piece of it all… much waffle is shared on the Web regarding how much the Author should be involved in the promotional side of the business… in my ‘umble view, it’s paramount to be totally immersed in it… whether or not ye’re an indie quill-scraper, or locked…

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