#Writing Wednesday - August 16th 2017

I'm now working with five different narrators to produce some of my books as audiobooks, and production is going well. I told you about Joseph, James, Giles, and Natalee, but I didn't tell you before that Tiffany Marz has kindly agreed to narrate my "Zeena Dragon Fae" series.

For those who might like an update: The "Toby's Tales" series is ahead of its production schedule, and the other books look to be on track at the moment. That's why I set up the Zeena books: I felt things had moved ahead enough on some of the other books that it was time to get them started. Besides, I'd need to start them soon if I want to guarantee they're done in time to fit in with my marketing schedule. I've allowed time in my marketing schedule for any potential delays though... Just in case!

The marketing schedule I've set up gives a nice gap between each series' promotional posts, so each series - or "batch of books" in the case of the degu ones - can get its time in the spotlight, and "hopefully" people won't get sick of seeing my name. So I've set up a schedule that has one series being promoted each month from September through next January. I haven't figured out how I'm going to handle promotion for the poetry books and the other 18 stand alone stories yet, but I'll worry about that later. Let's get this lot sorted first.

Sticking with the marketing theme: This is a really good motivational post about authors and marketing fatigue. Yeah, I hate marketing too. But I also want people to know my books are out there, and hope at least some of those people will buy them. That's why I'm taking advantage of releasing my books in audio to do a big marketing push for each series or title. That's why I've been collecting people, and why I've been devoting so much time lately to organizing and writing promotional posts, and that kind of thing.

Yes, I'd like to be devoting more time to writing new stories and poems - that pirate adventure story in particular keeps shouting at me to come and finish writing it - but I also want to give the older titles the attention they deserve, which they never got during their initial release, and which the release of the audio editions has provided a perfect excuse for me to do now. Luckily for me, some wonderful people have agreed to post stuff for me on their own blogs around the dates I plan to do the big marketing push for each. This means I have a lot of posts to write - since I want each one to be at least slightly different - which means more time taken away from story and poem writing. But it's a good thing, so I don't mind. In fact, I'm very pleased they all agreed to do it, and grateful to them for doing so. Most of them are authors themselves, so I'm sure they know how much I appreciate the extra help in getting the word out there about my books. If you're one of those people though, and happen to be reading this... Thank you!

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