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The blogs I visit are either news blogs (like i09) or content driven sites. I don't care how much I love an author, I don't give a darn if he's doing a signing three states away. If he has free stuff on his website, I'm there for the free stuff and I ignore the news posts entirely.
If you're going to build a community of fans, it's because you're giving them something they don't get elsewhere, and it has to be something they actually want.
Whether that translates into book sales is a whole other issue. Just because you're a great blogger, that doesn't convince me you can write fiction. So how do you make that jump? I think giving away free short stories is a great place to start, but it's only a beginning.
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OTOH, it means I get to keep winning arguments with you. ;) And tell you to put on a sweater when it's cold outside.
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Wait...which 80s were we talking about again?
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Esther Dyson was saying something similar, in the far blunter, colder tones that one might expect, early in the '90s.
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