Week by Numbers.

A bit early in the week, isn’t it?  Still, as of this afternoon, The Queen of England: Coronation will be a week old.  I believe I did this for Life After Joe, and think it’s a nice experiment for this novel as well.

Just in case you wondered how I’ve been spending my time…

1 review, thank Dan for being a friend who 100% ‘gets it.’  Now, only 4 more until I can start ads on Facebook.
10+ books sold, of course, this is A LOT less than I’d like it to be, and this is precisely the reason I didn’t want to publish because not even 15 books in a week feels like a GIANT failure.  Just being honest over here — my self esteem can be directly tied to my book sales.
70, book bloggers contacted.  I’m thinking it as a ‘DIY Book Tour.’  I’ve had more interest than not, or no response at all.  Fortunately, two of the ‘yes’s’ are ones most suitable for my genre, so I’m excited to see where this goes.
3, book bloggers contacted for Life After Joe.  A sort of knock down effect of trying to get reviewers for the Queen has led me to some appropriate potential reviewers for Joe.  Who knew?
A lot, of book bloggers who don’t want to read self-published novels.  My response is that I’ve had the book professionally edited and formatted.  Doesn’t that count for something?
0, number of times I’ve opened The Queen of England: Grand Tour (Book #2) in the past week.  Must market.  Must finish food reviews…
Marathon, not the sprint.  I constantly have to remind myself that I haven’t published a YA book in 4 years, so it’s going to take awhile to rebuild my audience.

Unrelated to all this book stuff:

1, approach from an Italian company who thought I was a Dutch Influencer (re: A to Za’atar goes to Amsterdam).  Flattered, but no.
1, review I’m scheduled to write for the Ritz-Carlton DIFC.
4, days out of 5 with food reviews.  That’s about 2 too many.

Overall:

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