Monthly Archives: March 2009

Yesterday I added www.danmarvin.net to the world wide web.  For the moment, it points to this blog site so people can follow my journey from schlub to author.  Eventually, I am hoping that danmarvin.net will be the internet’s premier portal for my books, insights, thoughts, inklings, ideas, notions, words, trifles, details, philosophies, utterances, nuances, and minutia.   Heavy on the minutia! 

I’ve also ordered the initial batch of my books so I can start ramping up the marketing machine.  I’m going to put out a press release, send a copy to the local newspapers, and submit them to the Kentucky Book Fair that happens in June.  They shipped on Friday so I’d expect to see them any day now.  There, you’re up to date!

I’ve been wondering for weeks why Amazon hadn’t bothered to post a picture of my book.  Seething is more like it.  Finally I got to playing around on my vendor site today and realized I had to upload one.  Oops!  So, that’s done and hopefully it will be up soon.  I also changed the description significantly.  I’ll post the new description when it is approved by Amazon, they state 5-7 days.

Apart from that, I’ve asked “Poor Richard’s Books” in Frankfort to carry my book, no word back from them yet though.  I have to figure out how to get into the Kentucky Book Fair this year too, I had written to them after last year’s and I just have to dig up the reply.  It involved sending them two copies of the book that they won’t return.  Oh well, if it sells a few copies it will be worth it.

I’m also working on a screenplay along with another writer.  It’s the first collaborative project I’ve worked on, and the first screenplay.  It”s a neat project and I’m learning a lot if nothing else.