I don't know if promotion really works. I think a book has to have a "moment" to be a runaway success.
(There's this French author I follow on Twitter, who just published a new novel; he's enjoying an incredible amount of press coverage, with raving reviews from so many critics. Yet his book doesn't seem to sell much, or at all.
My book is called "L'archevêque de Cologne" (it's in French). It's the - real - story of a priest in Paris during WWII who would pretend he was fighting the Germans, while he was in fact working for them, and giving them names of resistant fighters.
Most readers or prospective readers think it's a "historic" novel, and there are only so many people interested in yet another WWII story.
But it isn't.
It's about truth, and how much you can lie to other people and to yourself until you dissolve your soul into your own lies. It's also about hubris, ambition, and morals.
This is difficult to convey, even in conversation.
bambax|4 years ago
(There's this French author I follow on Twitter, who just published a new novel; he's enjoying an incredible amount of press coverage, with raving reviews from so many critics. Yet his book doesn't seem to sell much, or at all.
My book is called "L'archevêque de Cologne" (it's in French). It's the - real - story of a priest in Paris during WWII who would pretend he was fighting the Germans, while he was in fact working for them, and giving them names of resistant fighters.
Most readers or prospective readers think it's a "historic" novel, and there are only so many people interested in yet another WWII story.
But it isn't.
It's about truth, and how much you can lie to other people and to yourself until you dissolve your soul into your own lies. It's also about hubris, ambition, and morals.
This is difficult to convey, even in conversation.