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The Epic Adventures of Prince Ralphie
A I, Artists and Authenticity
Paw Prints
Reading Ralphie
How Ralphie's Adventures Began
The Mystical, Mysterious Imagination
The Ralphie Project
About Us
Contact Ralphie
The Epic Adventures of Prince Ralphie
A I, Artists and Authenticity
Paw Prints
Reading Ralphie
How Ralphie's Adventures Began
The Mystical, Mysterious Imagination
The Ralphie Project
About Us
Contact Ralphie
A I, Artists and Authenticity
Paw Prints
Reading Ralphie
How Ralphie's Adventures Began
The Mystical, Mysterious Imagination
The Ralphie Project
About Us
Contact Ralphie

That brings me to the next part of my story, my experiences in Louisville, Colorado as I attempted to market my book by giving five hundred copies away for free. Yes, it’s true, I gave over five hundred copies of the Epic Adventures Book One away for free, which in the end just brought suspicion on me in a malicious kind of scrutiny at the Farmer’s Market; ‘what’s this guy up to? Whatever it was, it wasn’t marketing.

So, there I sat at a cafe table with do-dads and little stuffy dragons and an inflatable Ralphie when a rather rotund fellow, his belly lapping over his belt wearing a tan tucked-in T-shirt with bar-b-que stains down the front came up and said, “nobody likes you here, why don’t you leave? I then asked him if he had read my book which was not the response he anticipated, and so he just looked at me quizzically. Then I asked if he or his friends had looked at the website, because if they had they would have been able to read about the program of Prince Ralphie related activities I had lined out for teachers and librarians and parents and public participation. He wasn’t the only illiterate in the crowd; the Mayor and City Council was approached and even a children’s librarian at the local library refused to read the book or the letter I had addressed to the city about my ambitions for the Prince Ralphie project. It seems that the town was overcome was too busy gossiping to read anything i put on the table and therefore missed the promise of the prince, in the end Louisville was just too small town for the Prince Ralphie.

The really sad thing about all of these personal attempts to connect with readers saw not one book sale on my publishing dashboard at Amazon. Not one of the five hundred free books resulted in the sale of another copy that could have been bought in support of the writer who just gave them a whole philosophical world in a storybook. Some of these problems were indeed marketing related, but other problems have to do with legitimacy and perception. As I said earlier, any AI analysis of the book would give one pause, but even for me, I was ignorant of really how good the books were children and the whole community until looked for myself.

The AI analysis turns out to back up my claims about the quality of thee book and is therefore one less step in publishing the book: usually the fact that it was published by a ‘legitimate’ publishing house took care of such doubts as to a manuscript’s integrity but in a time and place where Literary Agents and Publishing House rule the stage

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