So the book
is finished! Ah! Big sigh of relief! Gone are the long hours spent toiling over
it, reading it again and again, fixing the typos, checking for loopholes and just
generally making it perfect. After which
I forced my husband to read it (or else I take away the remote), my sister
(because I’m older), my mom (because Mom’s do that), hell, I even made my kids
read it (because Mom’s do that).
Finally, I felt ready to send my creation out into the world!
I went to my
Kindle Amazon account and I uploaded the sucker. Then I created a CreateSpace account and did
it again.
Alas. The only way for me to expect people to buy the
book, is first of all – they have to know
about it. So many potential customers
out there and they are all clueless that ME, little ol’ ME, has an actual book
out there ready for the buying. My
Twitter and Facebook and Goodreads and all-the-other-social-media-site fans
have been hearing about my book; they have stuck with me through my tweet rants
about it and my posts. I am ever so
grateful for this, which is why I began to get a bit nervous about overdoing
it. So sometimes I would just tweet
about the weather.
It all
sounds very easy and, technically, it is.
You need to devote a lot of time, but all in all it is easy to do the
techy stuff.
So what is
so hard?
It’s the
whole self-promotion thing.
You have to
tell the world how wonderful your book is and you must truly believe it. But it feels like bragging. I’m sorry, but it does.
Now I see so
many authors get out there on social media and promote themselves. And so many of them do a wonderful job of
it. And it does not seem to me like they’re
bragging. Not at all; I love to hear
about their books and, believe it or not, I check a lot of them out. Yes, I actually follow some of the
links.
But back to
the subject. It is very difficult for me
to talk about ME and even harder for me to tell you what a wonderful thing I’ve
done. I somehow feel like the conceited
kid who brags and brags and brags until everyone is tired of hearing about it,
regardless if he can do what he brags about or not.
I have never
been much of an attention seeker anyway.
No, put me
behind the scenes; I’ll support others, you know, but, mine it’s, well, just
this book I wrote one time.
Okay, now there
you have it. Want to buy my book? It’s a fun, fast read. Oh, and it’s free for the next two days, Nov.
11 & Nov. 12 on Kindle.
Here’s the
link for Kindle .
Here’s the
link for CreateSpace .
Okay, I
guess that wasn’t too hard.
Thank you,
all!
keywords: me, me,
me
