Baby doesn't like shameless self promotion

[jennickels]

"I'm uncomfortable with this on so many levels..."

Anyone else have a thing against advertising their fic?  It just seems weird to paste links to my stuff all over (like in the rec comms and stuff).  I don't know why.  If I ever became a published author I'd be screwed with all the publicity stuff.  I hate it.  Maybe I'm just weird.

Of course, I also get very few reviews on my stories but oh, well.  Just wondering if I was alone?

Also because I wanted an excuse to post this video from iCarly.  It cracks me up.

Yes, I'm easily amused.

Comments

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about self-promption, I just feel weird about it.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

SELF PROMOTION UR DOIN IT RONG
1. 'Please read & review! Reviews are LOVE! =)'
2. 'Please let me know if you liked this chapter n i will rite more if there's enuff commentz <3'
3. 'I don't know if this is allowed on this Sam/Jack community but I wrote a Maybourne/MarySue plz read & let me know you love itttt!!111!!'

FUCK YEAH SELF PROMOTION
1. Completely linked story header with spoiler & content warnings at relevant communities whose readers CRAVE the content you're posting
2. A Tweet that links to your latest blog entry or archived fan work
3. A Tumblr post announcing your latest fan work
4. Providing links to your latest fan work to a relevant fan newsletter/bulletin board
5. Archiving fan works at multiple sites in case one of them fails (I'm looking at YOU, LiveJournal)

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

LOL, I hate it when people do those first 3. Ugh.

My public LJ posts automatically get sent to my twitter so I guess I have that. Maybe I should start posting to the Sam/Jack comms here.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Nothing makes me wanna smack someone like those 1st 3 do. Especially the "blackmail readers for praise by not posting the next chapter of a WiP" ploy.

The other 5 have never bothered me, and are sooohelpful if you're a community mod.

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

WORD about those first 3. Blackmail is just wrong, but then I think of my writing as a gift to people, and saying I won't post unless people review would be imitating my daughter (she of my default icon, seen here) at 18 months. We tried to teach her to say thank you at a tender age by playing the "Thank You Game" where we would take turns accepting a toy from her and saying "Thank you!" and handing it back to her, so she could do the same. The result was that at 18 months, if you had something she wanted, she would march up to you, hold out one hand, frown, and say "Thank you!" in increasingly demanding tones until you handed it over. Not the manners success we were hoping for, although a tendency to develop sudden deafness when faced with this tactic soon rid us of that obnoxious (but adorably earnest) behavior.

The other kind of self-promotion is the sort that I try to follow through with (minus the Tweet or Tumblr, since I don't maintain accounts) if I'm doing a ficathon/Five Things post/or similar. It seems only polite to pimp your host.

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Edited for egregious spelling errors!