Hello Peeps
When you publish a book you know that the marketing of the book is purely/absolutely/totally your responsibility. It's bloomin hard, follow all those clues, you need to twitter, you need to blog, you need to have a Facebook page and you need to ......God knows what. As a writer I just want to write. I may be slow, I may be lazy (probably the latter) and I know I have got to pay attention to the marketing of my book Just One Year.
Again when you're a novice, as I am, you search the net for any help you can get and little by little you become involved with people who self-publish, as I did. Then I joined a writer's group (which was on one of the many lists of do's for a new writer). Unfortunately on that group I read such a lot of criticism of self-publishers by some people who would do well to join the plain English campaign and get in touch with the language once again. I sort of feel that writing, whilst scouring a Thesaurus to turn simple words into jawbreakers is a slightly pompous and pretentious way of writing. I didn't pay anyone to publish my book, although I do admit I paid for a cover. All the work both during the uploading and publishing phase was done by me and so, too, the marketing. It's been a long road and I am so pleased to have come through on the other side because I know that the next time I publish it will be easier.
If anyone has any tips that worked for them - then please feel free to share with me!!
Colette
About Me
- Colette Smith
- Los Gallardos, Almeria, Spain
- Hi all, I'm a writer of a certain age and living in Spain. I'm Irish, with an English husband and four children + two grandchildren. Finished my first novel, ebook and paperback published and available. And in the middle of second novel with third in my head, this time a little foray into the land of UK ex-pats and a comedy I hope.
