I wasn't suggesting that one should make crap and then concentrate almost exclusively on marketing. I was only pointing out that, given how well even crap can sell with the right marketing, just how important the actual selling part of the business is.

Too many people have the impression that all they have to do is make stuff they like, and if it's good enough, people will buy it. I read posts on DA all the time from disappointed artists wondering why they can't sell prints. But no one seems to have explained to them that it just doesn't work like that. Writing is exactly the same. And even authors who have a contract with an established publisher seem to be bemoaning the fact that they end up spending more time on the road, at book signings and so on, than they do actually writing. And that's if they're lucky. If they're not, the publisher prints 5,000 copies and lets them flop, with no marketing assistance at all.

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