Marketing Major
Apr. 3rd, 2009 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j_cheneyMost of you won't know this, but I actually have a degree in Business (Marketing) and one in English. (How I ended up teaching mathematics is a weird and circuitous tale). Occasionally the Marketing degree surfaces...
A group of us have applied to do a reading at Wiscon, including the wonderful![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jess_ka, the colorful camillealexa, the amazing carolineyoachim and our charming male associate dotar_sojat.
So we're trying out a marketing ploy which will hopefully involve AnthologyBuilder. No, we're not expecting this to generate money--we're not mercenary folk--but a chance for someone in the audience to sample a bit more of our work.
We're looking at putting together a short anthology of bits our work at AB, picking up a few copies, and then giving them away as door prizes. IF we get approved for a reading, can get everything through AB by then, get the artwork in, assemble the anthology, and get it shipped out by Memorial Day Week-end....oh, wait, that's a lot of IFs....
OK, so we might not be able to pull it off...but it's a fun thing to shoot for and doesn't cost us anything.
So my quandry is that I need to pick two of my five stories that are at AB to put in with the others....
Currently I have the following available there:
1) Touching the Dead, fantasy, originally pubbed in JBU, June 2007, reprinted in The Best of JBU 2.
2) Masks of War, fantasy, pubbed in Fantasy Magazine July 2008
3) The Stains of the Past, fantasy/romance, pubbed in The Sword Review, Feb 2006
4) Taking a Mile, science-fiction, pubbed in Writers of the Future 24, Aug 2008
5) A Hand for Each, fantasy, pubbed in Shimmer's Pirate Issue, Nov. 2007.
Any thoughts about which two I should pick?
A group of us have applied to do a reading at Wiscon, including the wonderful
jess_ka, the colorful camillealexa, the amazing carolineyoachim and our charming male associate dotar_sojat. So we're trying out a marketing ploy which will hopefully involve AnthologyBuilder. No, we're not expecting this to generate money--we're not mercenary folk--but a chance for someone in the audience to sample a bit more of our work.
We're looking at putting together a short anthology of bits our work at AB, picking up a few copies, and then giving them away as door prizes. IF we get approved for a reading, can get everything through AB by then, get the artwork in, assemble the anthology, and get it shipped out by Memorial Day Week-end....oh, wait, that's a lot of IFs....
OK, so we might not be able to pull it off...but it's a fun thing to shoot for and doesn't cost us anything.
So my quandry is that I need to pick two of my five stories that are at AB to put in with the others....
Currently I have the following available there:
1) Touching the Dead, fantasy, originally pubbed in JBU, June 2007, reprinted in The Best of JBU 2.
2) Masks of War, fantasy, pubbed in Fantasy Magazine July 2008
3) The Stains of the Past, fantasy/romance, pubbed in The Sword Review, Feb 2006
4) Taking a Mile, science-fiction, pubbed in Writers of the Future 24, Aug 2008
5) A Hand for Each, fantasy, pubbed in Shimmer's Pirate Issue, Nov. 2007.
Any thoughts about which two I should pick?
