Hi! Did you miss us? I’m sure you did. So, here’s the thing. Remember how when we started up last summer, it was all regular posts and gossip and great times? And then it started to kind of dwindle away, until once a week, once a month, and then nothing.
Yeah, our bad. I think I’ve figured out the problem. We’re BOOK PUBLICISTS. We’re not designed to follow a project for more than a few months. Think about it. You get assigned a new book. You are totally excited about it. Every day, you’re thinking about new angles, you’re pitching, you’re planning tours, you’re doing mailings. It’s great. Then, the pub date comes. You’ve been working for weeks to line up publicity, so by the time the pub date comes, you almost feel like the book is over. You half heartedly continue the campaign for another month or so, sending out quotes, pushing for those “maybes” still hanging around. Then you move on – at least until the paperback. So really max, 6 months, start to finish. And that’s generous.
So think of Slunch as a book we were assigned to. We got it out there. People picked us up. And then we got tired and bored and our inspiration dwindled. Plus, you people. You don’t contribute enough. You tell us things under the condition that it “can’t appear on Slunch.” No one sends fun anonymous tips. This was supposed to be for you. A safe place for you to complain about how fucked up the industry can be. Or how great it can be. Or a comment on ANYTHING that’s somehow related to books. We’re not picky. And, frankly, we also have jobs. And shit got busy. We can’t always be carrying it alone. But, anyway, sorry about the slacking. Our bad. We’ll try to do better.
Consider this our paperback release. Slunch is back.
--Slunchie
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don't know enough about book publishing but could tell you other stuff that bothers me about:
- marketing
- luxury goods industry
- corporate world in general
- the 21st century
keep the blog up. I like your style.
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