I heard a podcast recently that was themed around “How to Ask for Money”. I don’t think there’s any podcast that doesn’t ask for money or promote a Patreon or live ads or whatever. But as I listened, I thought these are crossover skills with author promotion. If you’re an author doing a book signing or during a release, you have to do a lot of marketing by yourself. You have to be a salesman, at least that’s what I’ve observed. And I hate being a salesman. Selling is convincing people to do something they didn’t want to do in the first place. And that often involves, if not outright…
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My Promotion on Hidden Gems Romance
So today is the day the first promotion I ever bought goes up. If you’re reading this, you may have come here via such a thing. I bought a day on Hidden Gems Romance for Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees. This is the first promotion I ever bought, and it’s my attempt to start actual marketing for things I’ve written. Apparently sending messages in a bottle reaches a limited audience. Also, I can’t keep drinking all this Coke. But advertising is expensive, so I’m keeping conservative at first, seeing what works and what doesn’t. This is the first one because this is not so much advertising as review soliciting (cause man,…
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Bibliophilic Book Blog Reviews Merm-8
Bibliophilic Book Blog did a review of Merm-8. They were very complimentary about the characters progression through change and the action and intrigue (which is what I was aiming for. Boss!) Take a look!
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Some Sites
Mm, I do like seeing my name on web pages that weren’t written by me.
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Merm-8 on “Story Behind the Book”
Here’s a treat. Merm-8 is featured on “Story Behind the Book” today. Take a look!
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First Book Trailer for Merm-8
I made it myself!
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Looking for Mermaids
When I started thinking about promotions for Merm-8 (now in fine stores and outlets). I wanted to do a blog tour. Basically, that means doing guest posts on various blogs. I came up with a ton of good topics, but the places to put them seem to be as sparse as cuttlefish*. I thought there’d be more websites about mermaids. There were when I was younger. But when I Google, most of the results are for commercial sites that are for things named after mermaids, like models and hotels and cleaning products and… seafood restaurants. So I’m putting it out there. If you can help me find some sites about…
