I have a theory about the impact of #platform aka #audience on book #sales
My theory is, size doesn't matter. Unless you're a Kardashian, the parasocial pull towards a distant icon is not enough to get them to buy your branded product --- or memoir.

What matters is the depth and longevity of relationship. I've seen a very niche author make it to best seller status because 1) the book was perfectly positioned and 2) she'd built up cred in her corner of the internet over time. And those folks had her back when it came time to publish.

I want to see authors acting like old school bloggers, where you treat people on the internet as real friends and talk with them, and if you have 2,000 of those folks in your corner, that's real gold. #booktalk #booksales

Online book talk tomorrow from University of #Oslo:

In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety‑six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Since the #nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki there have been over 2,000 nuclear tests; we envision the Cold War as a period in which nuclear weapons were not used when in fact statistically there was a nuclear detonation every 8.6 days between 1950-1989. Millions of people lived downwind from those nuclear tests, and #thermonuclear tests raised radioactive fallout into the troposphere and stratosphere which eventuated in global distribution of radionuclides. Millions more lived near nuclear production sites, or accident sites like #Chernobyl and #Fukushima. These are the “global #hibakusha.”

@histodons @sts @nuclearhumanities #NuclearTest #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #BookTalk

https://www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/research/projects/oslo-nuclear-project/events/online-seminars-/onp-seminar-with-dr-robert-jacobs.html

Hey Folks! This week we have the full crew again. It was a weirdly deep show as far as topics go.

Topics We Discussed:
-- #LiarsDay
-- #E3 dying again
-- #Crunchyroll killing games
-- #Zelda Direct
-- #GuildWars2 SAB and Fashion Wars
-- #PathOfExile #Crucible league reveals
-- #TerraNill
-- and some #BookTalk

AggroChat #429 - Just Stay Down

https://aggronaut.com/2023/04/02/aggrochat-429-just-stay-down/

Endlich gibt es wieder einen #booktalk mit @MadameMelli . Wir reden über Highfantasy als Genre und das Buch "Das Geheimnis der Elfenmagierin" von @fantasyautor . Ab 18 Uhr geht es los! #twitch #twitchDE http://twitch.tv/saskiadressler

Diese Woche ist ganz voll gepackt! Am Freitag gibt es endlich einen #Booktalk mit @MadameMelli. Wir reden über High-Fantasy als Genre - also genau mein Thema zur Zeit. #twitch #twitchDE
http://twitch.tv/saskiadressler

#Atlanta #atl #georgia #ga tomorrow!!!

#book #booktalk #free #drinks #food

Atlanta! One week from today! January 25 @ 7 come see me talk about #AfterLife w #Pulitzer Prize winner @dougblackmon at the famous #Manuel’s Tavern.

#Free & open to the public! @acappellabooks @haymarketbooks #books #book #newbook #writer #writersofinstagram #writersofig #editor #booktalk #manuelstavern #atl #georgia #ga

Powerful companies took over our cultural domain: they now determine what we see, read, listen to, or talk about, @glynmoody warned during his #BookTalk co-hosted by @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

I got bored, so here’s a #HotTub #BookTalk from this time last year
@bookstodon
#christmas #books #librarian #libraries #LibraryMastodon #bookstodon

Creating #UploadFilters that don’t block legitimate content: an impossible conundrum, @glynmoody explained during his #BookTalk co-hosted by @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

#Copyright #Article17

Creating #UploadFilters that don’t block legitimate content: an impossible conundrum, @glynmoody explained during his #BookTalk co-hosted by @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

#Copyright #Article17

Love to all the #TuxedoCats and other #CatsOfMastododon in my TL on this beautiful #Caturday. 🐈‍⬛ 🐈
ICYMI The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide is a lovely read for #CatLovers & connoisseurs of Japanese novels.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/30/the-guest-cat-by-takashi-hiraide-review-meditation-change

#CatBook #Book #Books #BookTalk #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Novels

Love to all the #TuxedoCats and other #CatsOfMastododon in my TL on this beautiful #Caturday. 🐈‍⬛ 🐈
ICYMI The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide is a lovely read for #CatLovers & connoisseurs of Japanese novels.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/30/the-guest-cat-by-takashi-hiraide-review-meditation-change

#CatBook #Book #Books #BookTalk #Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Novels

Focus on #TrueFans, @glynmoody tells creators. He explained why he strongly believes in this concept by @kevin2kelly during his #BookTalk co-hosted by the @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

Focus on #TrueFans, @glynmoody tells creators. He explained why he strongly believes in this concept by @kevin2kelly during his #BookTalk co-hosted by the @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

Before the loss of the previous social media site, I had had plans to market my books a lot this year. At least three books a month.

The calendar is sitting, unopened on my desk.

The #BookPromotion lists I use haven't adjusted to the social media change yet. Waiting to see if they will. Or what the future has in store.

Not sure yet what I will plan, if anything.

I like still having them available on Amazon.

Hoping the doctor can find something to reduce the pain levels enough so that I can write again, and finish the last book.

@bookstadon

@writingcommunity

#BookTalk

🧵/1 #Copyright is like a bully on the playground, @glynmoody observed, reflecting on the many locked-up #OrphanWorks, during his #BookTalk co-hosted by the @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

🧵/1 #Copyright is like a bully on the playground, @glynmoody observed, reflecting on the many locked-up #OrphanWorks, during his #BookTalk co-hosted by the @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

Almost asked for Sophie’s World for Christmas but found the hardcover and paperback amongst my dad’s old books. Guess a spot for another book has just freed up.
What are you hoping to get for Christmas?
#BookTalk #bookstodon #bookcommunity #bookish #christmaspresents

#Article17 of the EU #CopyrightDirective creates an impossible dilemma leading to fragmentation, @glynmoody observed during his #BookTalk, co-hosted by the @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook