Marketing Efforts and Future Directions

Cory Maye, as noted, is on Amazon now, so the next big effort is marketing. We're mailing books with a cover letter to a bunch of Mississippi newspapers, and we've submitted to a listing that goes to 35,000 librarians. Hey, if we could get one book in each library.....

And, watch this space! Last weekend we noticed a new bookstore had opened just two blocks from our house. It's been open since the first of August, so perhaps we're a little slow on the uptake. We walked down to Gatsby Books to meet and talk to the owner, Sean Moor.  He's a nice young man who has been making a living selling books online and on Amazon. He took it to brick & mortar to have the experience of running a bookstore. His collection of used books is of extremely high quality, and he also carries new books.

He's enthusiastic about local authors. You can get much more local than two blocks away! After some discussion we took him up on his offer to use his store space for a book signing, tentatively scheduled for 7pm October 20, 2010. We'll be working on some flyers, and other ways of publicizing the event. 

We also left a copy each of Cory Maye and Byron Case with Sean. We're in a bookstore!! Yay. First one anywhere.

So we'll be planning and working for the talk TSJ will give at the signing. Maybe we'll draw people in by talking about self-publishing. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Print Edition now on Amazon

As you see, the link to Amazon now leads directly to the print edition of The Skeptical Juror and the Trial of Cory Maye. This is the first (and as of this date) the only book about the case.

We are working at present at marketing this book, and Byron Case as well. Two in a series...what will be the third??

Cory Maye To the Printers!

We've finished editing the proof copy of Cory Maye, and have released it for production, which means that quietly, in the night, without notice to anyone, it will appear on Amazon. When we discover it, we'll let you all know.

Which means we go back to compulsively checking Amazon. Frequently. Because who knows when it will appear? It's like mushrooms sprouting after rain. Well. In rainy places. Not in Southern California, because it'll probably be November before we get rain again.  Gosh, I've gone all Bulwer-Lytton, here. 

But you know what I mean. 

The incidence of errors in the proof wasn't too bad. Either that or our editing got really crummy. You'll let us know, I'm sure. We've ordered a case of publisher's copies for publicity purposes, we'll be mailing them out to interested parties, including every crime reporter in Mississippi whose address we can dig up. 

More updates as news happens!