“Unlocking the Secrets: Transform Your Screenplay into a Gripping Novel with Expert Joe Cornet!”
Joe Cornet
I think I would recommend to have some success with one before you start with the other. Absolutely. I agree with that. I would also say that it’s much tougher to promote and sell a book of fiction actually than it is to sometimes sell a screenplay. Because the publishing world has changed significantly, much like, of course, the moviemaking world has changed significantly. Now we shall see what happens, because everything has been rather slow in filmmaking for the last year plus, and it’s going to continue to be probably very slow with all the events that are happening around us, particularly you and I here where we are. So that’s to say that one is less difficult than the other is just not true, in promotion wise. I think the main thing is, if you have a book, you need to get with a good publisher who will work with you and put you on publicity campaigns, book signings. I just had a book signing in Burbank the weekend after Christmas, and we did pretty well, garnered a lot of interest, had a lot of people show up. I’m doing another book signing in Tombstone, Arizona, called the Festival of Books in mid-March, and all the Henry Gray authors are going to be there, from what I understand. It helps if you just don’t… I hate to say this, but I really advise against just self-publishing, just going on. The days of you throw it up on Amazon self-publishing and doing it, you’re not going to move that much product. You really need to find a good publisher who will work with you, and not just a quote-unquote indie publisher, because Henry Gray is not an indie publisher. They work all different kinds of aspects of the business. Yes, they are independently owned, but they have a philosophy and an ideology to promoting and supporting their authors, which for instance, if I can sidebar a little bit, the owner of Henry Gray has meetings about every 60 days on Zoom, talking about what we’ve been doing in the last two months to promote our publishing house and your books, and the authors share different ideas about promotions and so forth, and it’s extremely helpful. I can’t say enough about Henry Gray.
