For much of the past year, I've spent hours upon hours editing, revising, designing and redesigning
Through Eyes Like Mine. Much of that work has been done in the early morning hours. Most of the process has been solitary. It's what writers do and I'm a writer. So although it's taken a whole lot of time and energy, I've loved doing it.
Now that the book is out, the marketing has begun. In this process, I'm much less comfortable. I have to talk to people, email them, follow up with phone calls, and email or call again. I have to ask people to buy the book and that goes against all my socialist tendencies. But if any of the editors from Penguin, Nan Talese, Tin House, Vintage, MacAdam/Cage, St. Martin's, Holt, HarperCollins, Graywolf, Picador, who passed on my book, had decided to publish it, they would have marketed the memoir so now it's up to me.
I decided to self-publish. I owe it to myself to pimp my memoir, so I'm asking for your help.
First off, to all of you who have already bought the book, thank you so very, very much. If you read the book, please consider posting a review on
Amazon, or as a comment on my
website. I would love to hear what you think, good or bad and to get people talking about the book. Tell your friends and neighbors. Write about it on your blogs. Any press is good press, right?
If you haven't bought it, don't like to read, don't plan on reading it, I should have put this paragraph earlier because you probably aren't still reading, but just in case you are, you can help too! Please share this post throughout the world of social media. Even if you aren't so into books, please share with your friends. Maybe they like books. Maybe they will read it. You too can pimp my memoir.
Or you can just chuckle about that little Noriko, (isn't she silly about all of this self-publishing nonsense) go about your day, and I'll simply carry on quietly, oh wait, I'm not supposed to do this quietly. Whatever. This capitalism thing is hard for me, but I'll be out pimping my memoir, one book at a time.
