It's Not My Fault

Good morning and welcome to wwwblogs. Today, we’re doing to discuss your sales, or the lack of them.
You haunt your sales venues from the day your book releases. There may be a few sales, or none. You’re certain people will love your book, if only they’ll buy it. What are you doing wrong?
First of all, have you made your book available on your Facebook fan page? Are you promoting your book on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or any other social media site? No? You’ve just discovered your first problem.
You are an author in the twenty-first century. Unless you’ve managed to be published by the Big Five, you don’t have a promotion team working day and night to let potential fans know about your masterpiece. Here are a few tips that will give you the exposure you need…
Be a social media maven. Learn on the fly how to manipulate these sites and make them work for you. This does not mean you blast out the news about your book many times a day, telling people they have to buy your book. That will have the opposite effect. Facebook will block you from posting in groups. They can even close your account if you’re too irritating. Twitter prefers that authors don’t just do “buy my book” tweets. You’ll need to intersperse other types of tweets between yours – puppies, kittens, positive sayings, even a coming soon notice for your new book, where you tease and tantalize readers. Google + is more lenient in how they operate their site but in order to attract readers, you’ll need to do more than bombard people with “buy my book” information.
“Bu… bu… but,” you protest. “That’s too much work. I’m an author. I must write.”
That’s right. You are an author. An indie author. We are a strong group of individuals who have opted to move away from the larger publishers. Some of us do have a publisher, but a small house not a large one. Others prefer the self-publishing route. What we all have in common is that we’ve committed to working a good part of each day to get our books noticed.
Our lessons we’re sharing with new indie authors have been learned in the wicked flames of social media. We’ve been “grounded” on Facebook. We’ve had our Twitter accounts temporarily suspended for any of a dozen reasons, but we have never given up. Not only are we promoting our books, we are in the trenches every day working on building our fan base and giving them intriguing stories to entertain them.
“It sounds so hard,” you say.
Whoever told you it was easy lied. Today’s indie author has to bust their backside twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. We can’t let an opportunity pass us by. We’re not just authors, caught up in plotting our next book, we’re also media mavens, publicists, and agents of our own work. We know that to make it in this business, we have to do all of this and more, with a smile on our face and a lot of makeup to cover the dark circles under our eyes. We know that to succeed in this business we can’t stop at the glass wall. We must shatter that glass wall and climb over those who say it can’t be done and prove it can!
“How can I get to this point?” you ask.
The moment you published your book, or your publisher did, you became an author. You joined the rat race of reaching for the stars. It’s never too late to promote your book, to grow your feeds, and to become the author whose name people recognize. You only have to do one thing…
Believe you can dive into the murky waters of social media and swim like mad.


About K.C. Sprayberry
Living a dream she’s had since she first discovered the magic of books. K.C. Sprayberry traveled the U.S. and Europe before finally settling in the mountains of Northwest Georgia. She’s been married to her soulmate for nearly a quarter of a century and they enjoy spoiling their grandchildren along with many other activities.
A multi-genre author, K.C. Sprayberry is always on the hunt for new stories. Inspiration strikes at the weirdest times and drives her to grab notebook and pen to jot down her ideas. Those close to her swear nothing or no one is safe if she’s smiling gently in a corner and watching those in the same room interact. Her observations have often given her ideas for her next story, set not only in the South but wherever the characters demand they settle.

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