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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
I've treated all my promotions on MR as just "one small stone on the road to success". There is no "one thing does it all" promotional method. In fact, there's so many that you are required to exploit that it becomes rather difficult to keep up with them all, or in some cases even do them. It used to be that there were only a handful of things that you could do to get noticed, and those were usually all you needed. Now the list is hundreds, if not thousands of items long and growing.  |
This is very true. I come here because MR is full of information, good advice and useful links for an author. It also contains lots of other authors who have been around longer and are generally experienced than me.
I have two problems, one with time and one with money. That means that the only way my book will sell is on recommendation. So... I try to give it a mention wherever I can, on or off line. I get regular hits to my site from here and it's the same (small) number each month, it fluctuates a little but not much. I see that as a bonus I reckon. I visit a few other fora and I look at any benefits I recieve from those the same way. As I understand it, if my work is good, it'll get there because people will like it and tell their friends. When it comes down to it, that will sell more of books than anything else. On fora, if people like what you write, or you, they may do the same thing.
Cheers
MTM