Things I did this morning (what everyone is dying to know)
Checked my emails
Checked my bank balance
Checked the weather
Wrote up the notes I’d taken during The Literary Consultancy’s two-day conference I attended on Friday and Saturday, Writing in a Digital Age, only a portion of which (the notes, not the conference) I understood, mostly because I cannot read my own writing.
Sent off for the full list of the fascinating and surprising stats on the book buying world delivered by Steve Bohm from Bowker market research.
Sent off for a one-to-one web surgery with Kristen Harris, who gave such an eloquent talk on book covers (and is Australian!).
Checked my daughter’s short film website and was surprised at how nostalgic I felt to see shots of Santa Monica pier.
Checked my emails.
Made minor adjustments to my Worst Country site.
Made minor adjustments to my London Theatre Visits site.
Made minor adjustments to my Society of Authors profile.
Made minor adjustments to my Twitter profile.
Hunted frantically for my mobile to check an email from my son – who lives in Venice, LA – about the Santa Monica shootings, whilst talking to my daughter on my, er, mobile phone.
Stared blankly at my Facebook book page.
Checked Twitter.
Turned on the central heating.
Checked my emails.
Checked my bank balance
Checked the weather
Wrote up the notes I’d taken during The Literary Consultancy’s two-day conference I attended on Friday and Saturday, Writing in a Digital Age, only a portion of which (the notes, not the conference) I understood, mostly because I cannot read my own writing.
Sent off for the full list of the fascinating and surprising stats on the book buying world delivered by Steve Bohm from Bowker market research.
Sent off for a one-to-one web surgery with Kristen Harris, who gave such an eloquent talk on book covers (and is Australian!).
Checked my daughter’s short film website and was surprised at how nostalgic I felt to see shots of Santa Monica pier.
Checked my emails.
Made minor adjustments to my Worst Country site.
Made minor adjustments to my London Theatre Visits site.
Made minor adjustments to my Society of Authors profile.
Made minor adjustments to my Twitter profile.
Hunted frantically for my mobile to check an email from my son – who lives in Venice, LA – about the Santa Monica shootings, whilst talking to my daughter on my, er, mobile phone.
Stared blankly at my Facebook book page.
Checked Twitter.
Turned on the central heating.
Checked my emails.
And so on.
What I intended doing but didn’t:
My tax return.
Finish my short story.
MORAL:
One thing that should keep self published authors from continuing to flood the market with ‘product’ is the volume of time they (we) are expected to spend keeping abreast of our sales, updating our profiles, checking our web stats, conjuring up and implementing new market strategies and putting into practice the wonderful, if opaque, advice offered at the conference on SEO and getting to grips with Google and Amazon’s algorithms.
Jon Slack and Rebecca Swift, joint organisers of the conference
More on the TLC conference in due course.
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