So I was talking to my husband and he asked me a question that I didn’t know the answer to. Mind you, this is extremely rare, as my mother will tell you I know everything! *note the extreme sacrasm*
Anyway, he asked me “At what point are you going to pull your book off-line? Cause if it were me, if I could read the whole book, even just the first draft, I wouldn’t buy it” – Ignoring the fact that my husband said he wasn’t going to buy my book - he made a valid point. At what point have I written myself out of the ooportunity to get published? Obviously, that is the end result. I want to see my name in print, my book on shelves and listed in the top 10 best sellers for 12 weeks in a row (ok, so the last one might be a bit of a pipe dream) but you get the idea. With that in mind, I also want to give those who have been interested in what I am doing the ability to see the entire, un-edited first draft completed.
So here comes the question…
If I complete the entire book online (mind you it would be the first draft and multiple, multiple multiple edits are to come)…. Would you buy the actual book? ?
April 11, 2008 at 1:18 pm
YES!!! And I PRAY others would read mine. It is a heck of an issue though and I have thought about this too.. even if the book is pulled off the blog the minute it is complete it will still sit cached in search engines everywhere…
But honestly, I would buy the book, simply because reading something from a computer screen is not as nice as sitting back in your comfy chair with a blanket and a cup of tea…
So there.. Oh… and on the best seller list, you just don’t know… stranger things have happened.
Lisa McKenzie