epub publicity experiment
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Self-publishing writers all know the toughest part of the publishing process is now getting the word out so that readers who might like what they write can find it.
One of the other BVC writers mentioned Ereader News Today. Their promo requires one to lower the price of the book to 99c, which means 35% royalty at Kindle, from which they take their cut, so you make pennies, but supposedly you get exposure.
It's supposed to work with Facebook, but if you find Facebook as confusing as I do, the link above takes you to my book plus some other choices for the day. I don't know how well something like this works, but since you only pay if people buy, what's the harm in trying? Anyone who'd like to try it for themselves, Here is the link for getting your book into the queue.
The book. Back in the seventies, I wrote a Georgette Heyer pastiche, but by the time I got it typed up to send around, the second wave of Regency romances had pretty much taken over, at least in the USA: spicy, the heroines hopping into the sack with the heroes. Along with the sex came the modernization of the heroines--they were often on a first name basis with everyone by page ten, they went off alone through London without a thought, etc. Readers seemed to want that, though I didn't, so I pretty much stopped reading them, and parked the ms.
Well, a few years back I took it out again, reread it, liked the plot though the Heyer pastiche made me wince, so I began the slow process of rewriting it, but this time, for fun, I'd stick with vocabulary and interactions from Jane Austen's time. But that would mean I'd have to drop the more lively portions of the plot (Austen makes fun of the action of Gothicks in Northanger but never indulges them), and she uses aristocrats only to satirize, so I amended my goal to more of a silver fork feel, because let's face it, readers don't pick up a Regency romance in order to exercise their solidarity with the proletariat. So it's about romance, but relationships, too.
Self-publishing writers all know the toughest part of the publishing process is now getting the word out so that readers who might like what they write can find it.
One of the other BVC writers mentioned Ereader News Today. Their promo requires one to lower the price of the book to 99c, which means 35% royalty at Kindle, from which they take their cut, so you make pennies, but supposedly you get exposure.
It's supposed to work with Facebook, but if you find Facebook as confusing as I do, the link above takes you to my book plus some other choices for the day. I don't know how well something like this works, but since you only pay if people buy, what's the harm in trying? Anyone who'd like to try it for themselves, Here is the link for getting your book into the queue.
The book. Back in the seventies, I wrote a Georgette Heyer pastiche, but by the time I got it typed up to send around, the second wave of Regency romances had pretty much taken over, at least in the USA: spicy, the heroines hopping into the sack with the heroes. Along with the sex came the modernization of the heroines--they were often on a first name basis with everyone by page ten, they went off alone through London without a thought, etc. Readers seemed to want that, though I didn't, so I pretty much stopped reading them, and parked the ms.
Well, a few years back I took it out again, reread it, liked the plot though the Heyer pastiche made me wince, so I began the slow process of rewriting it, but this time, for fun, I'd stick with vocabulary and interactions from Jane Austen's time. But that would mean I'd have to drop the more lively portions of the plot (Austen makes fun of the action of Gothicks in Northanger but never indulges them), and she uses aristocrats only to satirize, so I amended my goal to more of a silver fork feel, because let's face it, readers don't pick up a Regency romance in order to exercise their solidarity with the proletariat. So it's about romance, but relationships, too.