Thursday, June 30, 2011

Finding the right readers


Okay, I need some help. I'm protective of sales numbers for my publishing company, Hall Brothers Entertainment, but I'm going to share a little about them right now. We're doing well, our first book sold beyond our projections and turned a small profit, our two anthologies have done extremely well and turned healthy profits, but one book hasn't quite found its audience yet. And that's where I'm hoping you can help.

Scrolls is my favorite thing I've ever written. If you're unfamiliar with it, I'll give you a fast summary. It's about a college kid who longs to be alone, but his life is complicated. His co-worker likes him, a campus security guard wants to be his best friend, his sister is in town trying to expose his well kept secret, and his ex-fiancee that he left without a word two years ago just transferred to his school. Oh, and magic is real and he's able to use it in ways no one else can, making him the target of a local magic wielding madman.

I feel like Scrolls is awesome. I'm not trying to be egotistical here, I'm just being honest. It's a collection of all of my favorite things, and I love everything about it. The people who've read it agree with me and seem to really enjoy it, but unfortunately it's a little bit different from everything else we've done on the website so far. If we were a television network, most of our projects would probably be on a network like FX. But Scrolls is much more like a CW show (but ya know, good). The problem is, most of our current audience seem to be those that like FX style shows (gritty, action packed, etc..), and reading about a college kid with magic powers dealing with his feelings for his ex-fiancee while trying to start a new relationship with a different girl doesn't seem to be getting them interested in buying the book.

So here's what I'm hoping you can do. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, come over to the site and check it out. If this sounds like something someone you know might be interested in, please steer them over to check it out. I'm not asking anyone to blindly buy the book (although it is a gorgeous and wonderful book), I'm just trying to get people who are interested in this type of thing to check it out. If you/they like it, then awesome, and if you want to buy the book, then awesome. But the whole thing is online for free, and more than anything I just want to build the audience and get more people on board before season two debuts.

Anything that you can do to help me out with this would be greatly appreciated. I love this project and would love to get the sales numbers up enough to where this isn't something that we have to consider cancelling before I have a chance to delve deep into the years and years of Scrolls stories I have planned.

The Hall Brothers Entertainment Scrolls page can be found HERE.
The Kindle edition of Scrolls can be bought HERE.
The print edition of Scrolls can be bought HERE or HERE.

2 comments:

  1. RedXassassin said...

    I enjoyed the heck out of "Pictures at an exhibition", and "the sweet science." So I would be more than happy to give this one a read, I'll let you know what I think.

    -Rick A-

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  2. i can honestly say I loved it, my first reaction upon finishing it was, "where is season 2? I need more." the character dynamic, plot and fluidity were stellar. Grade A stuff A.C.


    -Rick A-

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