Gotta say, this marketing stuff is hard...and really time consuming. I was never a big Twitter or Facebook person, never really saw the point in it, since I'm not the kind of person to give people minute to minute updates on what I ate, watched on the TV, or did in the bathroom. But I can see the benefit of it for marketing...although I haven't yet seen the rewards. But it's only been a couple of weeks, so I'm being patient.
I mean...it's not like I'm checking my book sales everyday, certainly not two or three times a day.../guilty. Hey, I'm excited to have a book published. I'll admit to many a headache though, in trying to get my stuff out there. Between signing up for this website (about.me) and that website (klout.com) and posting excerpts here (tumblr) and there (twitter) and over there (facebook) and trying to keep up with everyone else's stuff so I can show that I'm interested in them so maybe they'll be interested in me, I just feel worn out.
This is why you pay for a publisher. But I just don't want to hand the rights to my hard work over to someone who plans on telling me who I can and can't sell it do.
I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet. Although lazy by nature, I am also extremely stubborn. I am determined to make this work, so next step is to get out the business cards and start giving people stuff to throw away...hoping they'll at least glance at it first!
Oh, and I've got another book in the works, a completely different style but still a good read...and two others I'm doing research for that will be tied to Revenge Unknown. I've got a lot of fun hard work ahead of me.
Revenge Unknown
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