Get a blog, they said

So, I've written two books (Thalassa - the world beneath the waves and Race the Red Horizon) and self-published them, and now I want people to read them. I've done the free Kindle giveaway (211 downloads!), had some views on Kindle Unlimited, and even got a 4-star review on Amazon.com (thanks Terry, whoever you are).

Now things have flat-lined a bit. I've sent out some freebies and in June I'll be doing a Goodreads giveaway too, one for Thalassa and one for Race the Red Horizon, and hopefully that will generate some interest.

But people keep telling me to do a blog. I suspect this is mainly because nobody knows how to market anything these days, since, surely, I say, that means I'm trying to market two different kinds of things instead of just the books... It's like chucking pebbles on a beach, lapped by the waves of a vast and implacable digital ocean. And they look at me and roll their eyes and think 'Luddite'. Maybe they're right.

So here I am. I've taken the plunge. I've cast my pebble onto the beach. I try to spend as much of the (rare and precious) spare time that I have actually, y'know, writing, so I hope this won't take over. The plan is to post the odd thing here, and see what happens.

Enjoy the pebbles.

p.s. This blog also appears at www.mjonathanjones.com/blog