X-Message-Number: 32793 From: "Chrissie de Rivaz" <> References: <> Subject: Re: Marketing cryonics Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:06:21 +0100 I do agree with much of what David Stodolsky is saying ... conventional novels aimed at female readership are a pretty cliched genre. Looking at the future implications of revivals, eg finding a new marriage might have taken place, as he suggests, mean the novel moves into a different genre. It is of necessity set in the future. There lies one of the many problems. Taking on something of this nature is considered to be set in the sci-fi genre ... thus not targeting women as the prime market. Too much 'relationship' emphasis is not a male target market. It is also very difficult to ge tinto the sci-fi and fantasy markets. Self publishing may be popular and not too expensive these days but marketing is rarely successful and very time consuming. Facebook and Twitter and so on, can be used but people still have to be persuaded to buy! Chrissie http://www.ChrissieLoveday.com http://www.Rough-Clay.com Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32793