My Feeble Attempts to Make my Book a Smashing Success Part 2

Status: still not a “smashing success.” Not even close.

*Tweeting: I don’t know how effective tweeting constantly about things that might not even be related to your writing is, but hopefully, by tweeting about a lot of random things, my chances of someone checking out my Twitter increase, and perhaps my chances of someone checking out the link to Bitter Candy on my Twitter increase, and then my chances of someone buying the book go up. Faulty logic, maybe, but hey, I have to create more of a social media presence anyway.

*Adding keywords to Bitter Candy’s Amazon product page: Hey, someone’s got to type in “rich boy and poor girl romance” and see my book, right?

*Joining book promotion groups on Facebook: INCREASE MY VISIBILITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA -> INCREASE CHANCES OF SOMEONE CHECKING OUT MY BOOK. HOPEFULLY.

*Adding my book to various lists on Goodreads: Someone’s got to actually read these lists, right?

*Writing the next book: To be honest, the only way to become a successful writer is to write more. Okay, maybe if you’re a celebrity like Kim Kardashian or Tyra Banks, you don’t necessarily need to write more to sell books, but for most people, the key to success is writing more. So on to my second novel.

On a random note: I keep seeing posts about people spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on publishing their books. Um, am I doing something wrong? Because, bro, I didn’t even spend a hundred bucks on Bitter Candy. 

Then again, Bitter Candy hasn’t even made me a hundred bucks…

Maybe I am doing something wrong.

But I’m too cheap. I ain’t paying for no advertising or no fancy editor or no reviews.

And yes, the incorrect grammar was intentional.