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on November 8, 2011
Jim Shea
Posted project update #24Sorry if I'm spamming you...
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on November 8, 2011
Jim Shea
Posted project update #1Relaunched ...
Post CommentI've taken this project down, and relaunched it here, because people weren't getting the concept that I really do need that $1 pledge -- without it, nothing happens.
Sorry for the confusion.
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on November 8, 2011
Jim Shea launched a project
Word-of-mouth publishing to get "Corruptions" out to readers by Jim Shea
Self-published in 2010, "Corruptions, A Novel of Washington" needs strong word of mouth to get a national audience. It needs your help.
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on November 7, 2011
Jim Shea
Posted project update #23Corruptions did not win at NHWP but...
Post Comment... I'm launching a new word-of-mouth marketing campaign, also here on Kickstarter, to try to get attention for the novel in the crowded world of bookselling. As described on the project's home page, "Because it was self-published, Corruptions has had a limited readership to date, due primarily to the economics of bookselling. Bookstores won't stock self-published books, with the result that Corruptions is sold one copy at a time. This is not a fundraising campaign; it's a word-of-mouth strategic marketing campaign, to give this novel a chance in the marketplace. The opportunity to publish Corruptions came thanks to Kickstarter in late 2010; but publishing it hasn't been enough. It needs to be in the hands of enough readers to generate interest, support and buzz about the work and its message about America's politics. That's what this campaign is all about."
So if you're interested, pledge $1 and then tell all your friends. Kickstarter is all about momentum and word of mouth; getting a self-published book in front of readers is all about that too. Thanks for considering it, and thanks as ever for supporting this project in the first place. All the best,
Jim
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on November 7, 2011
Jim Shea launched a project
Word-of-mouth publishing: get "Corruptions" out to readers by Jim Shea
Self-published in 2010, "Corruptions, A Novel of Washington" needs strong word of mouth to get a national audience. It needs your help.
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on November 5, 2011
Jim Shea
backed a project
First Kiss: a short film by Yulin Kuang
The story of a fourteen-year-old boy who finds out a pretty girl wants to kiss him at his best friend's Spin the Bottle party.
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102% funded $6,156 pledged
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on September 1, 2011
Jim Shea
Posted project update #22Finalist for the NH Writers' Project literary award!
Post CommentI have just been told by the New Hampshire Writers' Project -- a group of over 700 "writers, readers, editors, agents, and publishers" seeking to "foster and celebrate writers in New Hampshire" -- that I am a finalist for this year's NH Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Fiction for my novel Corruptions. The other finalists in my category are: Jodi Picoult, for Sing You Home; Katherine Towler, for Island Light, and Ann Joslin Williams, for Down from Cascom Mountain.
The winner will be announced at NHWP's annual event on November 4 at the New Hampshire Institute for the Arts. If you want, you can vote for Corruptions for the People's Choice Award that they are giving for the first time this year. The link is here: http://tinyurl.com/NHWPnov4.
More useful, though -- since I think Corruptions is too dark to win a People's Choice Award -- would be to submit a review of the novel at Amazon. Go to this page, sign in, and you can add a short (20-word minimum) or lengthy review: http://tinyurl.com/CorruptionsReview. I'm hoping that announcement of the finalists will push people toward Amazon, and their research makes it pretty clear that customer reviews push book sales.
Thanks! And thanks again for your support so long ago!
Jim
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on June 4, 2011
Jim Shea
Posted project update #21Radio interview tomorrow a.m....
Post CommentI'll be interviewed tomorrow morning at 10:00 am on WYBCX, the Yale University radio station, on Jim Campbell's "Business Talk with Jim Campbell." The show focuses on political and business non-fiction, with this being a very rare show where they'll be focusing on fiction. If you can listen to the show, you can click back any time this week at the link below. Details below.
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Streaming Live on the Internet – Click on: http://www.WYBCX.com
(Then Click on “Live Stream”)
“Business Talk with Jim Campbell”
Sunday June 5th @ 10-11am Eastern
Summer Fiction Show – “Money” & “Power”
Hedge Fund Thriller – “The Gods of Greenwich”
Norb Vonnegut
Corruption in DC – “Corruptions – A Washington Novel”
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on February 24, 2011
Jim Shea
Posted project update #20Corruptions made the first cut ...
... in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, whose winner gets a book contract with Penguin and whose most active contestants have a chance to be noticed by publishers and agents. This was the easy cut, from about 2,500 contestants to 1,000, and the much more important stage is the next one, cutting the list down to 250 novels. That decision is made by Amazon's own judges, with the announcement made on March 22.
If I make the cut there, I may need your help in going to the Amazon website and reviewing my novel. I'll keep you informed.
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on September 28, 2010
Jim Shea
Posted project update #19The fastest way to let you know...
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Jim Shea
Lyme, NH
I published my first novel, Corruptions -- http://corruptions.net -- in October 2010; it was one of four 2011 New Hampshire Writers Project finalists for Outstanding Work of Fiction. My day job is building a university initiative in the IP space, for... view more
Hey, congratulations, Jim! That's wonderful news.