Floods Begin With a Trickle

The iBooks versions of my books are now live on iTunes, with the book pages, “A Hero’s Return”, and “The Special Scent” updated to reflect the change in availability.
So far things have been travelling slowly in terms of reader interest, with this blog pretty much the main thing I am doing to promote my works. There is more promotion, advertising and awareness work being planned, but for now the blog is it.
I have distributed a couple of gratis copies to some people who have helped out in their own way, and have made sample versions available on most retail sites, so there are copies of my works being passed around.
In the last few days I have seen quite a significant step up in the interest in my books, with more downloads of the samples from sites that give me daily updates. On sites that have longer term tracking, there is also a nice uptick, but it will probably be another week or so before I see those results.
Also on the promotion front, I have established an account over at Goodreads. For now, though, I’m in the midst of relying on word of mouth to spread my works.
When I have a few more titles through the publishing process, the marketing juggernaut will start unfolding. It doesn’t seem right to do it when there’s only a couple of titles out there.
Here’s hoping, though, that the uptick of interest continues, and I get my next title published soon.