The things we do for love … & sales!
April 26th, 2007I’ve recently joined Crimespace, Book Place, and something called Nothing Binding. All of them allow me to promote my book.
Because the Senior Center Murder Series focuses on seniors, I’ve searched high and low for places geared towards the older generation (of which I’m one). The best I’ve found for interaction (no, I don’t mean dating, although there are plenty of those sites) is Seniors Grand Central. I’ve already put up a blog, or what they call a journal, and have been doing some behind-the-scenes software testing for the site’s webmaster.
In preparation for my virtual book tour, I’ve been surfing to sites and reading articles and posts all over the world. Yesterday I found a blog by Ed Robertson that had one of the best articles I’ve seen called, “Numbers, numbers, numbers”. I left a comment which led to Ed visiting here where he read and commented on Lew Weinstein’s serialization. I emailed Ed back and asked if he could recommend contacts for the virtual book tour. Which he did, and which I am following up today. Thanks, Ed!
I’ve also completed four interviews — each taking anywhere from a half hour to an hour — just for the first pass! I’m still working on questions that I received yesterdy. Would you believe that there’s 52 of them?!! They even said that I could add up to 6 of my one. Oh wow!
So, what have I been doing lately? Promotion, networking, planning, pitching. And all for love (give me some, please!) and sales. Ah me.
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Cheryl,
I joined Nothing Binding, too.
I also joined a place called eons.com, which is like a MySpace for the over-50 crowd. I’m finding there are some pretty nice people on there and lot of writers. I had a ton to learn, because it is not exactly all that easy to navigate, but I thought you might like it. I’ll send an invitation if you’re interested.
Lynn
Comment by Lynn Voedisch ? April 27, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
I had no idea you were over 50! Sure, I’d be happy to have an invite. It’ll give me a reason to interrupt answering the 49th question (only 3 more after that!)
Comment by Cheryl ? April 27, 2007 @ 2:55 pm