Calling Vicki, 10 Days, Lessons Learned
I am officially ten days into the release of the novel and during the past few days I learned a great deal about what works and so far does not work where marketing a novel is concerned.
Lesson number one:
When I do this again I am going to start the facebook page for the book at least a month in advance. Unless you advertise it takes a long time to build facebook followers and that following is important where marketing a book is concerned. I am in luck in this one area. I have facebook ad credits left laying around and I plan on using them during the next week.
Lesson two:
Build the website and put it on autopilot.
What I mean by that is that I could have constructed this website with pre written post while I was writing the book and then have them set to post on certain days. By having done that I would have more free time for marketing.
Lesson Three:
No two books are alike.
I have written a few nonfiction books. Marketing those books were easier because I had blogged for at least a year on each subject of those books. By blogging I had a built in audience and that helped to sell those books.
This book is suspense fiction and I am unproven as a fiction writer although I have published four short stories during the past year. All I have to get people interested in the novel are the sample chapters. When writing a thriller, sci fi or suspense or horror you need to build a fan base. In this case I am going to have to use the novel to do that.
Lesson Four.
Stumbleupon and Tumblr are very important marketing tools.
I can use them to reach people. To get them to sample my book, but getting others to share my post on Stumbleupon or Tumblr is huge. From my research I find that these two sites are much more important when it comes to marketing a novel than Twitter. Convince a reader to repost a chapter or one of my post on Tumblr is going to make things progress a lot faster. Getting others to like my pages on Stumbleupon gets my work to a huge audience.
Lesson Five.
Ask for help.
I am a loner by nature. Most writers are. We spend more time with out characters than we do interacting with others. I do not like hiring help, yet alone asking for it. I have to get past this, because I do have a family to support. I have to do this so that I can quit my day job and become a full time writer.
So I am going to as for help from you the reader. Take a few minutes to read a chapter of the book that has been posted here. Share that post with a friend. Tell me what you think.
Lesson six.
Keep writing.
Writing takes the pressure to sell off. Writing is after all what I love to do and getting lost in the next story is good for business in the long term. With the exception of blog post I took eight days off from writing and that amount to around ten thousand words that I did not write. I am back to writing and having fun at it. I like to tell stories. I love seeing how they will turn out. I can not wait to see how this real life story of me the novelist will end up.
Lesson seven.
Make up for lost time.
This is time that you spent writing that you did not spend with your family or friends or even me time. In my case I did not spend enough time with my child, she is almost three and I took six months out of our time together saying go away I am trying to finish my book. Well it is finished and today I going to play with blocks and dolls. I am a guy I love blocks, but dolls were never my thing.
Face it, while we are working so hard to build a better life for the ones that we love we forget to do the little things. All the money and success on earth does not make up for time. Time is the one thing that we do not get more of.
Okay that will be it for today’s post. Good luck with your writing and thank you for visiting.
I am officially ten days into the release of the novel and during the past few days I learned a great deal about what works and so far does not work where marketing a novel is concerned.
Lesson number one:
When I do this again I am going to start the facebook page for the book at least a month in advance. Unless you advertise it takes a long time to build facebook followers and that following is important where marketing a book is concerned. I am in luck in this one area. I have facebook ad credits left laying around and I plan on using them during the next week.
Lesson two:
Build the website and put it on autopilot.
What I mean by that is that I could have constructed this website with pre written post while I was writing the book and then have them set to post on certain days. By having done that I would have more free time for marketing.
Lesson Three:
No two books are alike.
I have written a few nonfiction books. Marketing those books were easier because I had blogged for at least a year on each subject of those books. By blogging I had a built in audience and that helped to sell those books.
This book is suspense fiction and I am unproven as a fiction writer although I have published four short stories during the past year. All I have to get people interested in the novel are the sample chapters. When writing a thriller, sci fi or suspense or horror you need to build a fan base. In this case I am going to have to use the novel to do that.
Lesson Four.
Stumbleupon and Tumblr are very important marketing tools.
I can use them to reach people. To get them to sample my book, but getting others to share my post on Stumbleupon or Tumblr is huge. From my research I find that these two sites are much more important when it comes to marketing a novel than Twitter. Convince a reader to repost a chapter or one of my post on Tumblr is going to make things progress a lot faster. Getting others to like my pages on Stumbleupon gets my work to a huge audience.
Lesson Five.
Ask for help.
I am a loner by nature. Most writers are. We spend more time with out characters than we do interacting with others. I do not like hiring help, yet alone asking for it. I have to get past this, because I do have a family to support. I have to do this so that I can quit my day job and become a full time writer.
So I am going to as for help from you the reader. Take a few minutes to read a chapter of the book that has been posted here. Share that post with a friend. Tell me what you think.
Lesson six.
Keep writing.
Writing takes the pressure to sell off. Writing is after all what I love to do and getting lost in the next story is good for business in the long term. With the exception of blog post I took eight days off from writing and that amount to around ten thousand words that I did not write. I am back to writing and having fun at it. I like to tell stories. I love seeing how they will turn out. I can not wait to see how this real life story of me the novelist will end up.
Lesson seven.
Make up for lost time.
This is time that you spent writing that you did not spend with your family or friends or even me time. In my case I did not spend enough time with my child, she is almost three and I took six months out of our time together saying go away I am trying to finish my book. Well it is finished and today I going to play with blocks and dolls. I am a guy I love blocks, but dolls were never my thing.
Face it, while we are working so hard to build a better life for the ones that we love we forget to do the little things. All the money and success on earth does not make up for time. Time is the one thing that we do not get more of.
Okay that will be it for today’s post. Good luck with your writing and thank you for visiting.
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