I was too tired last night to wrestle any sense out of Flea Market Larry’s latest blog entry. It makes even less sense this morning.
. . . this site will not only act as a homepage and plug-page for magazines and upcoming science fiction, fantasy and horror venues, but also be a store.
Except that WordPress doesn’t host e-commerce. He owns the lawrencedagstine.com domain, but all it does is point to his blog, which is hosted at WordPress. Picking an Adsense-ready template for it won’t magically turn it into an e-commerce site, complete with a shopping cart capable of handling online payment verification. For that, he’ll have to pay for real web hosting, not simply a park and redirect.
I am open to further freelancing, networking, and marketing with other authors if they too would like to be a part of this store (like trading purchase info links). I advertise you, you advertise me. I sell your work, you sell mine.
So, is his blog going to have e-commerce, or merely links to sites that do? Other than maybe someone like Dudgeon, I can’t imagine anyone thinking Larry’s blog would be a good place to advertise. He won’t make enough money to pay his grocery bill with Adsense, and unless he can figure out his blog reader demographics, work out a rate card based on some stats other than the module WordPress has, etc., he’s not going to sell any other advertising.
With that said, stay tuned to this site between now and mostly 2010.
Can anyone interpret that? It might as well be written in Sanskrit.
This site will also act as the occasional home of the “short story review”, the science fiction media news source and, later down the road, a new and unique kind of cross-marketing, branding-upon-branding, product placement and more.
About as unique as any one of his stories that’s already been done 100 times by others.
It’s what will also hopefully help fund the new venture come 2011.
Ah — the mysterious new venture that will never come to fruition. Another Literary Bone(r)? It’s pretty obvious that he doesn’t have a business plan. Who’s going to finance this thing? His parents? Larry couldn’t even afford to buy his own Kindle.
I’d have to say that 2010 will also see an end to a majority of all print-related periodicals in “genre” featuring my stories in it.
We can only hope.
As much as he likes to yammer on about how e-publishing is the wave of the future, print is dead, etc., he fails to take into consideration that not everybody wants an e-reader. A piece of plastic that runs on a battery can’t match the smell of a new book, or the tactile sensation of flipping the pages. Admittedly, the ink won’t smudge, but so what?
Good God, once again he’s offering advice to someone new on SL.
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/11663
But.. but… but….
Wasn’t the genre crushed into oblivion in Feb?
Wasn’t there a great new venture to come out… already?
Hasn’t the world been overturned enough??!
Oh wait, this is new AND unique! Then someone give me hat so I can hold onto it!
I wonder if L. Dicky realizes that the only people who read his blog are the people always laughing at him.
Oh and in reference to a previous post, that thing he threatened to do with his (non-existent) Irish buddies was to “Herb” them. Turns out that it’s nothing more than pointing and laughing derisively at people, which makes sense given that he’s too much a chicken-shit to do anything else.
Ah. I had a vague recollection of a four letter word that left people scratching their heads.
Now I have a fantasy about someone sneaking up behind Larry at his Coney Island table, and sprinkling him with dried oregano . . . then pointing and laughing.
Yeah I remember Herb too.
Homer’s brother.
I have to share one good thing that happened to me last week! The local computer repair guy gave a sneak peak of the shop he’s opening up downtown to all his face book friends. While we were there we could sign up for a chance at a $50 gift certificate to the local steakhouse, and I won it! I’m going there this week sometime.
Cool. I haven’t won anything in years, and even back then it was almost always two tickets to a Knicks game, or the U.S. Open (tennis) from some magazine reps who came in to give a presentation. They’d have a drawing for those who showed up to the presentation, so my odds of winning were pretty good — usually 5% or better.
Enjoy the steak. Yum.
Sorry to break in with something OT but Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
http://nvhbooks.webs.com/printingservices.htm
And I imagine he’s just using Lulu or Createspace.