19 Friday Dec 2014
Posted in Marketing, Promotions
Il Molo is now also listed on Author Shout’s Cover wall – http://authorshout.com/cover-wall/.
Every marketing outlet is helpful depending upon the following. But I’ll try every source once. If I feel it’s not working, it will be abandoned. For you writers, there are also a lot of other interesting services on this site some free and others not. For you readers, there are new books to discover. #ilmolo
02 Tuesday Dec 2014
Posted in Interviews and such, Marketing
25 Tuesday Nov 2014
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Paperback or Kindle.
To help inspire you, the Kindle version is now available at a maximum price of $1.15 through Christmas. Or you can borrow it through the KDP select program.
23 Sunday Nov 2014
I was extremely busy this past week at my day job. I felt like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.
On Thursday morning I realized that the previous day I had had no time to consult my Facebook account. I knew I was missing some important news from my friends. Couldn’t check on how my pages were doing – Literary Selfies, Il Molo, Pierre Montant. Didn’t even have time to check if there were any more FB Likes on Literary Selfies, not to mention time to post a new interview on the blog. And my own blog – no time to see if I had any more followers. Goodreads and She Writes fell off the radar. I didn’t check my sales on CreateSpace and Kindle Publishing nor if I had any more reviews on Amazon. Didn’t look at either Twitter or Pinterest. Google+ never even entered my mind. And Commission Junction was just a fleeting memory.
Wow! Now that I’ve listed all the sites that I consult in a day (besides the ones I need for my job) it’s scary. What would I have been doing 10 years ago? For sure none of this. However, I must admit I’m glad that all these internet tools are available. I wouldn’t have been able to self-publish my book and market it myself, create a website and a blog, use social media to reach out to friends and followers. On the other hand I wouldn’t have had dozens of passwords to remember, nor worry about viruses, nor hackers breaking into my accounts. And I definitely wouldn’t have had that “White Rabbit” day.
08 Saturday Nov 2014
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People often ask me how Il Molo was born. My response – “with much difficulty.” It almost became a half-written novel left on my computer’s hard drive. A similar fate to the James Bond novel I started in 9th grade and never finished, the handwritten manuscript most likely ending up in a wastebasket.
I started working on Il Molo in 2010. I was sitting on the beach in Varigotti, a small village in Italy where we spend at least a week every summer.
Varigotti beach – (Borrowed from Facebook share.)
03 Monday Nov 2014
Posted in Marketing, Promotions
Very interesting analysis I found on Goodreads post that I wanted to share with you. I’m going to take the advice that Catherine gives. A summary is in the image:
http://catherineryanhoward.com/2014/08/18/goodreads-giveaways-dont-do-what-youre-told/
30 Thursday Oct 2014
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Reach. This was a black hole for me. In spite of consulting FB Help, their explanation was still not clear. So much for helping.
On the Literary Selfies page, which I manage (see earlier blog on Literary Selfies website), there is a shared post on “writing is good for your health” that reached over 19,900 FBers, with 133 Likes and 153 shares! Not bad. The post is below, but unfortunately it doesn’t show the reach but does mention the Likes and shares.
Other posts which I thought would really be more interesting to our followers (authors and readers) barely reached 150. I really don’t get it. Another phenomenon, the linked posts from Twitter to FB also had smaller reaches. Figure that one out! So I stopped doing that.
Then yesterday I found on FB, yes believe it or not, through comments from other FBers in a group I follow that others were asking the same questions about reach, likes and spending money on FB ads. Someone with more experience posted a link to a YouTube video that answered my questions. I highly recommend it. Plain and simple and clear, and exposes Reach and Likes. I don’t pretend to understand everything but the video helps.
27 Monday Oct 2014
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I discovered a networking website for women writers: http://www.shewrites.com/
“Welcome to She Writes, the largest community of women writers online. She Writes is your place to find community, and all of our place to foster it. Whether you’re well published, just starting out, a novelist, journalist, blogger, memoirist, screenwriter, poet, playwright, agent, editor, or publicist, this guide offers a number of ways to maximize your use of She Writes.”
I’ve just joined so I’m still feeling my way around. But all networking and marketing outlets can be useful. And it may be useful for you.
22 Wednesday Oct 2014
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You can read the salient parts of the Prologue of IL MOLO on BooksGoSocial.com.
Discover the Molo and Martha, and get a taste of what is to follow. I hope this will tempt you to read the book or at least put in on your Bucket List.
12 Sunday Oct 2014
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Marketing takes time, it is not free, you have to be patient, and you have to be willing to take risks. This post chronicles the steps I’ve taken over the last six months. If you want to know more about any of my marketing efforts, drop me a comment and I’ll go into the gritty details.
My first novel, Il Molo, was published in March 2014. Writing it was fun and satisfying. Unfortunately, I had no idea of how to get it published. Then I learned about self publishing through CreateSpace and I was off. Fortunately I could rely on the valuable experience of my aunt, Rebecca Sloan, who had already gone the self publishing route for two of her books.
March 15, 2014 – I remember the elation I felt when CreateSpace informed me that Il Molo had been reviewed and was ready for publication. I hit the Publish button – and I was off. Continue reading
Theresa Nash 