Alexander M Zoltai's Blog – December 2010 Archive (15)

Read > Write > Publish > Repeat = A Wonderfully Strange Life

I'll start explaining the title's formula with the word "strange". Its

history shows it meaning, "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown,

unfamiliar".



A Strange Life...



So does reading then writing then publishing then repeating the process create a life that's

unfamiliar, unknown, foreign, and from elsewhere?



Ask any serious writer :-)



The reason I started this little explanatory formula with reading is

because I'm in agreement with the folks… Continue

Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 29, 2010 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Many Readers, Many Opinions ~ Who To Believe & Why...

Authors often solicit opinions from beta-readers--folks who read and comment before the book's published.

Thing is, different readers have very different opinions
! Who's right? Which comments need to be heeded?



In my own experience, with my pre-publication edition of…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 26, 2010 at 11:59am — No Comments

This Author's Job ~ Reading Reality Right

O.K. Last post before my holiday break and I think the title is a real challenge--a challenge for me... What to write?...



I am an author. There is a reality out there (and, in here). Let me take a crack at reading…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 23, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

The Harpoon Or The Net? ~ Gaining Influence...

December 20, 2010

Whether you're an author, a blogger, or a butcher you need to gain influence to have people consume your product. Even if you're just a nine-to-fiver with no ambition, you'll have no social life if you don't somehow gain a bit of influence.



Sonia Simone has a blog called…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 20, 2010 at 10:35am — No Comments

So, I Wrote A Book... ~~~ So What?

December 18, 2010

So, my book gets published. That same day there will be well over 2,000 other books published...



So What?



So, the year I've already spent in promoting the idea of my book, the months spent writing and revising, and the last few months of giving people an…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 18, 2010 at 9:43am — No Comments

What's It Like Inside When You Read A Book?

I wish you were sitting here, in front of my computer, and writing this post for me. Of course then, the title would have to be, "This Is What It's Like Inside Me When I Read A Book." Hey! You could write a real long comment to this post and do just that…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 15, 2010 at 10:45am — No Comments

Book Promotion Blues ~ "Hey! It's A Job :-)"

Yes! It's definitely a job to do book promotion. My book's scheduled to be published in March. I've been promoting it for over a year--way before I wrote it. The "experts" say that's very important these days...



Last post, I talked about integrating Twitter into my promotion efforts. Twitter is a weird space but it has great…

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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 13, 2010 at 11:23am — No Comments

Watching The Words Fly By ~ Sucking Up Meanings

Finally integrated Twitter into my pre-publication promotion efforts. Thought it would be too much effort. Waaaay surprised that I like watching the Tweets flow by. Pulled my Facebook NewsFeed into TweetDeck…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 11, 2010 at 10:19am — No Comments

Is It *Really* Possible To Get-Along With Everybody?

Get along with everybody? Like, if everybody could do it there'd be no more war? What, am I crazy??



Well...



:-)



No, I don't think I'm crazy but I do think people have more potential for

peaceful living than they might realize. More potential for working…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 9, 2010 at 12:35pm — No Comments

Google, Amazon, &The Author ~ Or, The Giants & The Pigmy

O.K., I'm an author. Published three books a few years ago on Lulu.com and have one getting ready for publication…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 7, 2010 at 4:14pm — No Comments

What Is A Muse??

Some artists have real, live inspirational helpers--people that act like a muse. Some folks swear

that the muse must not be another living person, that the inspiration

must be completely internal or other-worldly.




I favor the explanation of Carl Jung--the muse is the other-sexed,

unconscious energy-complex that complements the artist's…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 5, 2010 at 12:12pm — No Comments

Who's Helping You Succeed? And, What *Is* Success?

The title of this post is really the most important thing I can say about the publishing process I'm going

through. I can read about others' processes and maybe learn something

but my book is
Way niche and trans-genre, plus I'm self-publishing, so, yes, I've chosen a somewhat lonely road...…



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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 3, 2010 at 5:47pm — No Comments

ReadWriteReadWriteReadWrite...

I was a reader before I was a writer. As I write, I become my first reader. Each reader of a book "rewrites" it...



I'm compelled to now write my absolutely favorite word--"Word" :-)



It's so cool, sitting on the page saying what it is...…



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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 3, 2010 at 5:46pm — No Comments

Is Virtual Reality Really "Real" ?

After I publish this post, I'll be taking one of my weekly trips into the virtual world, Second Life, for a

listen to the next chapter in an author's live readings...




I've been involved with Second Life for about three years but it was last

year when I started pre-publication for my forthcoming novel. I touched

on this in a…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 3, 2010 at 5:45pm — No Comments

Do You Talk Back To Books?

At some point in my past, from a source I can't remember, I heard that it's therapeutic to talk back to TV ads.



I watch TV programs on the Web now so my chances for Ad-Rant-Therapy are,

thankfully, shorter. But, my talking back to books has always been with

me, and not just the swearing variety. Sometimes I coo at what the book

is saying.…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 3, 2010 at 5:43pm — No Comments

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