Online Book Promotions: New purpose for my blog

I published Goblin Fruit through Create Space and Kindle Direct Publishing as an experiment. It's not my favorite of the books I've written. Don't get me wrong, I worked really hard on it for a long time and I'm proud of it, but it started as a class assignment, so it didn't exactly spring from the depths of my soul or anything. Still, I feel like it's a good story. I enjoyed writing it and a lot of you have said you liked reading it, or even that it moved you. Thank you.

I was frustrated with looking for agents and/or editors and I just wanted something of mine to actually be read. I chose Goblin Fruit because I thought I could bear to part with it. If I couldn't make the self publishing thing work, and no one read it, it wouldn't feel like an actual child of mine had died, more like a close friend or something. Really sad, but not debilitating.

What I wanted, and still want, is to promote it pretty much exclusively online. That's a real challenge for me, because before I published, I was using Goodreads and Facebook minimally, and they were basically the only social media sites I used at all. I'm learning as I go, and I feel really alone in that process a lot of the time.

But I know I'm not alone. I know there are a lot of Goodreads members who are writers and are trying to figure this all out just like I am, and I thought some of you might like to hear about my experiments with online promotion, my successes, my failures. I'll be posting them here.

(Hey, I'm not sure I understand the tag thing. I'd appreciate any comments below with tips, or just comment and let me know you're here. Sometimes I feel like I'm speaking into the wind.)