{"id":4850,"date":"2012-04-12T11:27:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2012-04-12T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:31:44","slug":"innocents-abroad-or-how-the-heck-do-people-sell-books-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2012\/04\/innocents-abroad-or-how-the-heck-do-people-sell-books-these-days.html","title":{"rendered":"Innocents Abroad, Or, How the Heck Do People Sell Books These Days?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a> (Available at Amazon at a pre-publication deep discount!) I was visiting with a friend who is a social media expert and somehow the subject of my forthcoming book came up. It does, a lot, my friends have noted\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve washed through the very last time the final, final version of If You\u2019re Lucky Your Heart Will Break: Field Notes from a Zen Life<\/a>. It\u2019s very exciting. I\u2019ve been told all that remains is the back cover. And when that\u2019s done they\u2019ll let me look at it, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m able to make any further changes\u2026<\/p>\n

Anyway my friend said I should now have my own webpage. Which I admit confused me. I have a pretty extensive presence on the web through the church<\/a> and the sangha<\/a>, and I even have a presence on Youtube. Heck, friends, I\u2019m pretty sure friends, have even got me an article on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

So, why, I wonder a webpage?<\/p>\n

I know it has something to do with the way things are today, and I know that they aren\u2019t what they used to be. One of my small attempts at being witty was when I was shown the cover for my book telling my editor that it is lovely, just the perfect cover to be face out on a bookstore shelf, if, that is, there were any bookstores left\u2026<\/p>\n

But, I have to admit I feel increasingly at sea in this new age of social media\u2026<\/p>\n

Brave new world, indeed\u2026<\/p>\n