I'm 37, I'm not old!
Always been a python fan. I've been waiting decades to use that as a blog post title!
My Birthday FB Post re-posted here:-
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My list of achievements for 36 - 37?
1. I'm still alive
2. I've still never been arrested
3. I've still never been sectioned under the mental health act 1983
4. I still haven't started drinking while at work
5. At least 800 people read Deathsworn Arc : The Last Dragon Slayer and at least 120 people have read Deathsworn Arc 2 : The Verkreath Horror across US and UK in the last 12 months - and not a single death-threat or fatwa! That's a pretty good success rate I reckon.
My continued lack of a stylish, fun-to-drive personal motorcar means I'm still considering changing my name to Car-less but at least it's cheap! I've had some great presents, which infer I need new clothes and drink a lot of alcohol - which are both pretty accurate so I can't complain! Here's to being able to provide another, great, positive birthday report in 12 months!
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I am really, really desperate to get my book 3 out now. It's so close! And Deathsworn 4 is coming along excellently!
I just wish, wish I could get my readership up. I'd like to add a zero to those figures by this time next year - but currently I haven't come up with anything like a plan for how to achieve that. Anyone who said - if you build it, they will come - was wrong. They should have said, 'If you build it, edit and polish to perfection, scream about it, promote it everywhere and do everything in your power to let people know about it, they still won't come unless you're very lucky.'
I still have a few ideas to try. I hope having book 3 out will help - I've never put out a new release with a great cover straight off the bat. I even wonder about doing a double Kindle Countdown at the point where I release book 3? good idea? My book 3 image got a lot of FB likes and raised awareness of the series.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
I really wish I'd got my book 3 out earlier - but I had to re-work and perfect books 1 and 2, I'm only sorry I didn't sort them out earlier.
From now on, nothing goes out unless I'm 90% sure it's error-free and good.
Yes it's slowing down the process, but it's providing a better reader-experience and it's giving me more confidence to promote the 'Deathsworn Arc' I will take this new approach when I actually start putting out my second series - my angels and demons urban fantasy with a theistic twist.
My Birthday FB Post re-posted here:-
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My list of achievements for 36 - 37?
1. I'm still alive
2. I've still never been arrested
3. I've still never been sectioned under the mental health act 1983
4. I still haven't started drinking while at work
5. At least 800 people read Deathsworn Arc : The Last Dragon Slayer and at least 120 people have read Deathsworn Arc 2 : The Verkreath Horror across US and UK in the last 12 months - and not a single death-threat or fatwa! That's a pretty good success rate I reckon.
My continued lack of a stylish, fun-to-drive personal motorcar means I'm still considering changing my name to Car-less but at least it's cheap! I've had some great presents, which infer I need new clothes and drink a lot of alcohol - which are both pretty accurate so I can't complain! Here's to being able to provide another, great, positive birthday report in 12 months!
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I am really, really desperate to get my book 3 out now. It's so close! And Deathsworn 4 is coming along excellently!
I just wish, wish I could get my readership up. I'd like to add a zero to those figures by this time next year - but currently I haven't come up with anything like a plan for how to achieve that. Anyone who said - if you build it, they will come - was wrong. They should have said, 'If you build it, edit and polish to perfection, scream about it, promote it everywhere and do everything in your power to let people know about it, they still won't come unless you're very lucky.'
I still have a few ideas to try. I hope having book 3 out will help - I've never put out a new release with a great cover straight off the bat. I even wonder about doing a double Kindle Countdown at the point where I release book 3? good idea? My book 3 image got a lot of FB likes and raised awareness of the series.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
I really wish I'd got my book 3 out earlier - but I had to re-work and perfect books 1 and 2, I'm only sorry I didn't sort them out earlier.
From now on, nothing goes out unless I'm 90% sure it's error-free and good.
Yes it's slowing down the process, but it's providing a better reader-experience and it's giving me more confidence to promote the 'Deathsworn Arc' I will take this new approach when I actually start putting out my second series - my angels and demons urban fantasy with a theistic twist.
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