I'm still not quite getting why this very well written press release only got me three people wanting to review the book out of the literally hundreds of periodicals it was sent to. I'm wondering where to go from here on my limited budget. One thing I can tell you--traffic exchanges are a bust if you're trying to promote anything artistic. You're marketing to marketers. Not quite the audience that's going to be gung-ho over the creative arts.
You know...I'm not claiming to be the next Stephen King or anything, but I would think that in this whole entire world there has to be at least 100 people that are as weird as I am, or at least curious about the subject matter of the book. I can understand being nervous about paying almost seventeen bucks for a book from an author you've never heard of before. But you can bust out five bucks and download the e-book!
Here, I'll even give you the link and make it easy.
I'll even give you the way to check out a few chapters first. That's just how damn nice I am.
Or you can look at the official website and find out more about the madness behind the method.
Yes, I would like some cheese with that whine, thanks for asking. And it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
Where the hell do I go from here???
2 comments:
send the book to publishers? the ones who pay you and do the publishing for you?
Well...seeing that I'm not anywhere close to Stephen King status, I pay the publisher! It isn't the old school "vanity publishing," they do some promotion for the price I pay, such as selling the book through Amazon and Barnes and Noble, which would be very difficult for a new author on their own. And I don't have a storage unit full of books I can't sell, because the book is published on demand.
I've been using search engine submission services. I'm scared to try the foul pay per click marketing again. But it may come to that. Ech! Google ate my heart and soul the last time I tried to promote anything using Adwords!
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