Some days ago, I read a posting on the cheerleader and voice of self-publishing, that REALLY opened my eyes about trying to market my novels. The things he had stated was a whisper of something I’ve heard before
Author are always given advice to talk about what they like to do, and what their thoughts are, to socialize and: blog about your ideas, Tweet about them, Facebook about them, and Forum about them…and They Will Come. The Readers, that is.
But according to J.A. Konrath’s posting (The Value of Publicity), that’s not what works and that’s not what is selling his novels.
Huh?
I heard a few other authors mentioned that they don’t do a thing with online socializing, and just write, and somehow readers find them.
Huh?
“Less Tweeting, more writing,” J.A. Konrath states. With that he emphasizes the basic facts that he’s always state, which is to supply more virtual items for your personal book store. Basically stating that you don’t want to walk into a store that only has ONE item on the shelf. You want to walk into a store with multiple choices. With the pure vastness of the novels you write, and with a good story and great cover, someone will read you and the word would spread.
Wow. More writing, huh?
I do have to admit that I’ve been sidetracked. I’ve been so busy managing my blog-sites and trying to make improvements and coming up with ideas and participating in forums that I haven’t really written anything more on my novels since NaNoWriMo.
Huh. Well. Let’s try it. You know my Motto.
DO EVERYTHING
Time to re-focus.
Time to write.
Until Next Time 🙂
