I don’t usually post rants on this blog – it’s not really my thing. I actually wasn’t even going to publish this piece at all, but I had a short online conversation about it with Ali Isaac, and so here we are. And perhaps this isn’t so much a rant as a collection of thoughts. But I feel the need to talk about the idea of ‘free’, and the seeming value placed on writing these days.
I would like to be clear that I am not talking about choosing to list our own books for free, nor am I talking about writing guest posts for other blogs. This is because I believe that offering books for free can be a strategic marketing tool leading on to more sales, especially if you have several titles on offer – Nick Rossis recently featured an excellent guest post on the subject, well…
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Thanks for the reblog, Sue 🙂
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Part and parcel of the idea that when you work at home you are not “really working” and have time to run everyone’s errands, etc. I don’t see this devaluation of the creative person’s time changing any time soon. (K)
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There I would agree with you completely.
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Helen put forward a really good argument. I agree with meemadtwo, above, about people working at home not seen as ‘really working’.
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As you know, it applies to carers as well as creatives… so we are lost 🙂
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This was fantastic! 🙂
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