More about myspace.com

I wrote in the previous post about myspace.com. You may be slightly confused reading the rest of this post, if you have not read the Myspace post.

While adding friends to my myspace account I have come across many authors, some, it seems, trying to do just what I am attempting. Clearly, nothing I am doing is original, and thus not as likely to succeed. If I was in the first group of people to use myspace as a marketing tool, I may have more success. But now there is so much there to overwhelm a person.

OR, if I was an established person, I could come onto myspace and promote myself with pretty good success. If Stephen King wrote his newest book and choose to promote it exclusively on myspace, he would undoubatly sell a large number of books.

The site is a big enough venue that word can spread quickly. But, if you’re like me, still hoping one day to rise up enough to be included in the masses of the also-rans, why would anyone talk about me or my project? My best hope is to enlist my myspace friends who know me in real life to distribute information to their friends - who would ideally be interested and send it on to their friends.

My other friends on myspace don’t know me in real life and would certainly be less compelled to read what I have to offer. I assume this because I do the same thing. I have quite a few author friends who send me notices of new projects. I’d like to check them out, but I rarely do (for a number of reasons). So how am I to convince near strangers to even take a look at a sample of the book? I’m not sure yet, but hope to have it figured out when this book starts to near a realized published state.