To Be or Not To Be

To be or not to be


Marketing or Author.  So the first Airsoft Bible is out the gate and racing.  I've decided to offer it at 20% off for the first two weeks to friends and family on Facebook, Google Plus and Airsoft Ohio.  A Marine brother is helping with Google and product placement, I have a website for it, a Facebook page for it and a couple blogs on it.

After the two weeks I intend to concentrate on other Airsoft sources.  There are magazines, websites and forums.

So now I have to watch the winds and make some decisions, soliciting feed back and opinions.   Do I also concentrate on a printed version?  If so, what size?  Color?  Black and White?  One thing I really like about just a kindle version is the ability to update.  Adding new information, new material and pictures.   This way I can keep a living document, get more people active and contributing and continue to build up the bible.  Turn it into a real quality product line that continues to draw people.

I have two worries at that point.  The time required to update and keep it going forward and competition.  Of course it would be great to develop some synergy with my other fiction writing as well but I'm not seeing that.

So I guess at this point it is just sitting back, working on the sequels and watching.  I've looked at some of the other Airsoft manuals and books out there and I must say I'm really disappointed in their quality, which in a way is good for me.  I'm not seeing hardly any real attempts to market them either with one exception.

So now I've set myself upon this path.  As I go further and further I realize what a big task it is.  When I started out Book of Comm it was 16 pages, it quickly grew to over 75.  I work on the other books here and there and they are going to take a lot more work as well.  So now I'm trying to figure out should I tackle hard or easy, or should I let the community decide.

One thing I see myself doing and can't find a way around is refering to other books.  I would like each one to be a stand alone but talking about billets and roles is hard to do without talking about specific tactics as well.  I'm certainly not perfect and it would be nice to get feedback.  While I don't expect to listen to ALL the feedback it would be nice to get a feel for what people are saying and thinking.