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" I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again. "
M. J. Rose
Back
New York
My Life
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" Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices. "
M. J. Rose
Great
Books
Stories
" A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off. "
M. J. Rose
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Reading
Want
" I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries. "
M. J. Rose
Book
Challenge
City
" Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help. "
M. J. Rose
Meeting
You
House
" I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago. "
M. J. Rose
Present
Writing
Place
" It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published. "
M. J. Rose
Up
Service
Decade
" PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages. "
M. J. Rose
Books
Attention
Marketing
" If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that. "
M. J. Rose
Your
Book
Simple
" I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response. "
M. J. Rose
People
You
Up
" Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal. "
M. J. Rose
Original
Good
Brilliant
" Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books. "
M. J. Rose
More
Books
Budget
" As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat. "
M. J. Rose
You
Yours
Book
" There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry. "
M. J. Rose
Publishing
Almost
Alive
" As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices. "
M. J. Rose
Consumers
Books
Choices
" Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours. "
M. J. Rose
See
Time
Grief
" I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000. "
M. J. Rose
Put
Marketing
Know
" One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds. "
M. J. Rose
Right People
People
World
" In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment. "
M. J. Rose
Play
Business
Gender
" Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared. "
M. J. Rose
House
Expectations
Book
" When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel. "
M. J. Rose
Television
Great
Advertising
" Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners. "
M. J. Rose
Go
Good
Manners
" One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well. "
M. J. Rose
Differences
Design
Book
" Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment. "
M. J. Rose
Work
Bad
Behavior
" I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off. "
M. J. Rose
Her
Know
She
" Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books. "
M. J. Rose
Her
Blessed
Daughter
" I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book. "
M. J. Rose
I Am
Time
Work
" I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising. "
M. J. Rose
Universe
Boring
Advertising
" Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing. "
M. J. Rose
Writing
Nothing
King
" The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books. "
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Successful
Mistake
Strategy
" I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives. "
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Where
Memory
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