Marketing and promotion is an art at which few authors are adept. The quiet and retiring type of person who can spend long isolated hours writing is seldom suited to the extroverted activity of self-promotion. Yet in the crowded marketplace of self-published on-line books and free podcasts it is increasingly difficult to gain visibility. Marketing is essential if one is to make any impact.
Wyken Seagrave is no stranger to innovation. He is the first author to offer a role-playing forum in which listeners to a podcast novel can influence the following week’s episode. He is the first to describe how a persistent black hole could be created in CERN, Geneva, by a mechanism whose risk has never been assessed by any scientist. He is the first to use the history of the Universe as the backdrop for his story. And he is probably the first to have lost US$ 1million by writing his novel.
Until 30 November 2009 he is offering $100 prize for the best suggestion of how he can spend $1000 on marketing this leading edge novel. For details go to http://www.timecrystal.co.uk/
