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Book Biting Day

  • Oct. 12th, 2009 at 11:33 AM
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1. It’s official. Comparing my web stats to my royalty statements, it looks like more people have read my list of 20 Neil Gaiman Facts than have read my actual books. (Thanks in no small part to a link from StumbleUpon last week.) This is why Red Hood’s Revenge shall include the following cover text: “From the author of Goblin Quest 20 Neil Gaiman Facts!”

2. I’m going to be chatting over at Bitten By Books today. This is not a fixed time event. Stop by any time during the day or evening and leave your questions and chat. Click on over to check it out, say hi, and get in on the prize drawing (anthologies aplenty and a set of goblin minis): http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=11707

3. Finally, check out mcmorran’s LEGO Dr. Who Flickr set. He built a LEGO Tardis and Dr. Who, and added them to various exhibits at a LEGO con. Click the link or the pic to see the full set.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.

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[info]lkrobinson wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 04:36 pm (UTC)
Yay LEGO TARDIS!

Well that just shows you the power of the internet. Plus your facts are really funny and take less time to read... so people who can't give you that time can read at least that.

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[info]jimhines wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 05:06 pm (UTC)
It makes sense. There's a lot more effort and investment in seeking out a book than there is in skimming a quick funny online. It was just a strange sort of milestone, you know?
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[info]lkrobinson wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 05:10 pm (UTC)
I get what you are saying- but hopefully some of the people are buying your books got to the check out line by way of your blog. I am sure they have.
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[info]trektone wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 04:44 pm (UTC)
Aren't you glad to know people read your work? LOL!
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 05:07 pm (UTC)
I am, of course. Maybe I've been working in the wrong genre. Forget fantasy novels; I should make a career doing bullet-pointed humor lists online!
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[info]mtlawson wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 04:46 pm (UTC)
Do the stats count unique hits or total hits?

Just curious if the stats are counting repeat business, as it were...
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 06:03 pm (UTC)
I'd need to double-check, and I'm on the laptop right now. The Google Analytics bookmark is on the desktop, where my wife is working on a paper for grad school.
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[info]filamena wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 05:12 pm (UTC)
Don't think of them as 'people who haven't read your book.' Think of them as 'people who may read your book as a result.'
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 05:24 pm (UTC)
If they do, great. If not, no worries. I'm not bothered by this. It's just a peculiar sort of milestone, you know?
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[info]filamena wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 05:31 pm (UTC)
Oh absolutely. Internet celebrity is a really strange beast, even shorter for most people then the 15 minutes of fame we used to be allotted during the television age. I guess the difference is, with the internet, you can make use of those brief bursts of fame by trying to catch another one.

I guess, like a lot of self promotion, (intentional or not) it's about catching the edge and making it work for you.

But I'm waxing eloquent mostly because I have a deadline and a lot of words to write and your post was an easy way to stall. Ha ha!
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[info]snapes_angel wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 05:42 pm (UTC)
Word of (virtual) mouth publicity. XD
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 06:01 pm (UTC)
I should have waited and published that list the day Mermaid came out :-)
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[info]snapes_angel wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 06:48 pm (UTC)
Ha! They probably go beck to check the lsit, you know. I see that people had been posting their own bits of Neil Gaimanisms in the responses.
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[info]brainstormfront wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 05:57 pm (UTC)
Must get back to work, but now thinking that the path toward being a best-selling author is

A) finish the novel;
B) get it to a publisher; and
C) blog about "20 Things Neil Gaiman Knows about Jim Hines But will only Tell Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow"

Steven
www.steveneschend.com
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 06:01 pm (UTC)
I want to read that list!
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[info]christinerains wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 06:07 pm (UTC)
OH! Lego Tardis! I want to build a life size Tardis in my living room to store DVDs, but everyone thinks I'm nuts. See you over at BBB! :)
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[info]xjenavivex wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 07:08 pm (UTC)
The interview was great. I posted a comment/question over there.
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[info]jjschwabach wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 10:21 pm (UTC)
TARDIS and Dragons! Life is Good...
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[info]bookishdragon wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2009 11:04 pm (UTC)
Hey are those 20 facts ever going to make it onto a teeshirt for a good cause as talked about on a previous post?
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[info]ashenseraph wrote:
Oct. 13th, 2009 03:24 am (UTC)
Re: #1, LOL! Yeah, this whole fiction-writing thing ... why are we doing it again? :-)
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