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Mar 18

Promo

Loyal supporters, I'm excited to let you know that I've been working with a book marketing consultant and we are putting together promotions to increase readership of Invention Is a Mother. To that end, I want to alert you that I'm advertising the Invention Is a Mother e-book for $0.99 from March 17- 31, 2023.

This affiliate link will take you directly to the Amazon Kindle page: https://amzn.to/3KFxIZD (Please share that link in your many social media postings)

Readers will recognize that my opinion of marketing is… not glowing, and question whether a marketing engagement is doomed from the get-go. I'm framing it as bravely facing my worst fears. There is no light without darkness! (I heard that recently in reference to surviving a zombie dystopia, which struck me as a fair analog for publishing today.)

For those of you who haven't yet left a review and need to clear your conscience, the $0.99 price also presents a guilt-busting opportunity to buy the Kindle version from Amazon, wait a few days, and then leave a verified Amazon review. My consultant tells me that a handful of reviews from verified buyers will substantially boost my book's credibility. Reviews can be just one sentence, you're not required to leave your name, and I encourage honesty, not flattery. Honest flattery is completely acceptable.

Thank you for helping me spread the love to new readers.

Disturbing Nudes
Yesterday, I reviewed search terms that generated clicks to my syllaballistics.com website. One individual had searched for the phrase mother nudes and because I had jokingly used the word nudes in my previous newsletter, Google offered the person my site, which they found enticing and obligingly clicked. Not wanting to imagine what the individual was actually searching for, I reflexively decided they were twisted... and possibly an avid reader, which is a demographic combination I could work with. No, I did not investigate my mother nudes search competition.

I prefer being associated with highfalutin keywords like novels for intelligent readers or best humorous fiction of 2022/2023 or visionary metaphysical fiction, but you have to meet your audience where they live. Theoretically, by relating this story in my newsletter and repeating the offending phrase, I increase the likelihood that future mother nudes fans will be offered my site as a search result. Verification of that theory will be reported in future newsletters.

Bunny
The mother nudes incident reminded me of when I helped develop concepts for an animatronic animal's tail mechanism and was warned by a colleague to exercise caution if I chose to Google robotic tail. In that case I did investigate the search term. Beyond the drawings of cyborg vixens, the search led to the subculture known as "Furries" — people who dress/identify partially or completely as animals. Years later, that discovery bubbled back out of my imagination as Bunny, Invention Is a Mother's feral engineer. True story.

Rob Brownell

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