Give and Take
In a world of give and take, I feel like an old
penny pincher taking away, just to give back in a different form. If I’ve
completely lost you at this time, don’t feel too bad, I’m having trouble
understanding myself right now.
The thing is, I have this wonderful companion blog
that I wrote as a writing challenge to myself for my first book. It provides
all sorts of wonderful information about the book and is an in depth and
interesting read all on its, but I want to sell books. I think I’m just too
passive about it. So I’ve decided to give the companion guide away for free as
an ebook in hopes that people will read it and want to read the actually book.
In doing so, I’ll be removing a small amount of the content from the blog to
add to the ebook as exclusive material. The blog covers 40 days of entries so I
won’t short change blog readers of that if they should happen upon the online
companion guide, but I will make known what’s missing and where to get it.
For all I know this may backfire on me, but I doubt
it. At this point, the companion blog has reached the top of its viewing peak
and people love free stuff. If no one takes my free book it’s not like I’ve
lost anything. As I see it, it’s a win or no effect at all situation, and
that’s not too shabby for me.
