Walter Stoffel asked Victoria Zigler:

More observations on my part than questions. You seem to be a very well-rounded person. I envy your getting published at a young age. I was 72 when that happened for me. My biggest challenge has always been to move from thinking about writing to actually doing it. Let me ask you this:how do you go about promoting your books? Walter

Victoria Zigler Hi Walter, and thanks for your kind words. I don't think it matters how old you are when you get published. Anyone who achieves that goal deserves congratulations, regardless of the age they did so.

As for your question: the main form of book promotion I use is guest posts and interviews on the blogs of others. Plus I have Twitter and Facebook and mention my books there, as well as on threads I have on all the Goodreads groups I'm a member of. Getting your name in front of people without just shouting at them to buy your book seems to me to be the best way to do it. It's not fool-proof, but nothing is, and it costs nothing but time to do guest posts, and at least gets more reads and clicks than, "Please buy my book," posts do, even if most of the people don't buy copies of my books after reading the post. But, hey, at least they see my name mentioned, and there's a chance they might. So it's what I do.

I also sometimes return the favour and spotlight others on my own blog - in particular those with pets; I've started a feature for pet interviews, which you can find out about here: https://ziglernews.blogspot.com/p/blo... - which potentially drives traffic to my blog from those, so can also potentially mean new people discovering my books. Plus, it's fun putting the posts together.

I hope that answers your question.

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