At long last, the weather breaks…
The chaotic weather shifts that were giving me mood swings have finally gone, and I'm no longer too unstable for excursions back into the social world again. This was one of those times when I was glad hubby wasn't home this week, so he didn't have to suffer through my crazy shifts from happy to sad or enraged for no reason. Well, there is a reason, the weather, but it doesn't help me keep calm when the mood swings are overwhelming me.
First thing I'd like to cover this week is the reminder that Belfire Press is right about to release The Life and Death of a Sex Doll. Maybe you noticed me pimping this often last month, and I'm telling you, I'm going to keep with the pimping even after it's released this month. There is nothing I'd love more than to hear from Jodi that they sold out the print run, and to get those kinds of numbers, I know I have to be a bit annoying with the pimpage.
The other thing I want to mention is links. In recent previous posts, I've started requesting that people add links to my Lulu store at http://stores.lulu.com/zoe_w or my Smashwords store at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/zoewhitten. This week was the first chance that I had to go into my own links and add the stores to my blogroll, so I expect it's going to take a while before y'all get around to adding these links to your blogs.
But, what if you don't have a blog? Well, if that's the case, you can still post links to my stores in your status updates for Facebook or Twitter. If you'd prefer to just promote one title instead of my whole library, you can also update your status with a link to your favorite stories instead. I've already talked often about how important reviews are, but Becka reminded me a while back that links are just as important. Every link you share is another chance that I might make a hook up with one of your friends. Yes, I'm totally using you to get to your friends. But seeing as how my paid editing gig already ended before I could secure funds for an X-box, I'm reduced to begging for help in whatever ways you peeps feel fit to spare.
In other news, I've released a lot of new books during my quiet time. There are now 24 ebooks and 14 print books. That's a big enough selection that I should have a book for just about everyone, and I'm still hot on the plan to do one release a month. Only now, I'll be putting out print and ebooks at the same time.
This is impressive output, but it still does not address my promotional problem about every release having no "buzz." I can ballyhoo all I want for every book, but if there's no excitement generated among regular readers, my sales will remain consistently flat. I'm open to suggestions on how to get readers involved, but thus far simply socializing online has not done much to improve my sales.
Closing out with the two g-news groups, the garden is looking nicer after a few days of steady sunlight. A lot of the plants went into stasis because of the weather shifting, but hopefully the extra daylight will convince them to do something besides look pretty. On guitar practice, I'm still working my scales and speed drills. I should be doing more practice, but the weather shifts killed my focus there too. Now that I'm stable again, I hope to get back into some longer practice sessions.
And that's the news for now. With luck and stable weather, I hope the next update won't be in another 3 weeks.
