A title! A title!

[EUOL]

Which are both reasons, incidentally, why they cut my novel's title down.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Just as well, since I had completely forgotten it was ever called "The Spirit of Elantris" and have been thinking of it as Elantris for probably 2 years or more.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Me too.

[Fellfrosch]

I think you should call it "The Book I Am Writing About a Kid Named Koshin Who Drinks Tea." I'm really bad at titles--I always have other people name my books.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Or TBIAWAAKNKWDT for short.

If you can pronouce it.

[Morag]

Well it sounds like TBIAWAAKNKWDT is the winner who wouldn't pick a book off the shelf with that title.  I mean you have to find out what it sdands for I read what it stands for and still cann't remember what it means

[Xaio]

Hey, u never know, they might actually accept it... if they're drugged or under pain of death

[Tekiel]

Just received this in the mail:

"Robison Wells is pleased to announce the release of his first book
On Second Thought  
The first week of March 2004"

Congrats!

[House of Mustard]

Well hooray!  I got more than half of those back in the mail demanding more postage, so I'm glad to see that some of those actually made it to their intended destination!

[EUOL]

You sent out your own mailers?  Interesting.  How did you decide who got one?

[House of Mustard]

I was limited by a tiny budget (being poor, as I am) so I sent them out to people that I know that I don't see very often.  I assumed that the people I see regularly would already know about the book.

Actually, EUOL, you were on the list, but your address isn't listed anywhere on earth and Ben wouldn't give it to me.

[EUOL]

I think you misunderstood my intent.  That wasn't a "why didn't I get one?" comment.  It was a "Interesting.  A professional in my field doing marketing.  I wonder what his theory on doing it is, and if he thinks it was a success."

[House of Mustard]

Ah.  The theory is simply that I want to sell as many books as possible during the first couple weeks of release.  I doubt that something like this would have any effect on a book released in the national market, but I think it could work well for an LDS book.  If I can even get 200 people to head out and buy the book during it's first week, then I think the marketing was worth it.  In a market where 70% of the target audience is along the Wasatch Front, word-of-mouth could be very effective.