I've been quiet on this blog lately.
It's not really something I wanted to do. But I've been working very hard on the guest house I mentioned before and a variety of books I'm writing.
Which is actually an interesting dilemma for me. My publisher seems to expect me to devote a significant proportion of my time to marketing. So they want me on social media to drum up new sales.
Thing is... It doesn't really seem to work. I have a significant platform elsewhere, adding up to about ten thousand people in my entire network. But no amount of posting, tweeting etc. about my book actually added up to sales.
Sales have happened, yes. But on days I did nothing related to the series.
Which means, the way I see it, that actually spending time devising and posting tweets, g+ postings etc. adds up to nothing. What has sold, however, was me building relationships through blogging. That I know, because most of you on my to-read list, I recognize from my blogging activities.
Ideally, then, I want to create the same type of society here. But it's difficult to create a society around something when most people out there haven't read my book.
It's a chicken and egg situation, really.
Hopefully I can figure this one out, though. I just need to put some more thought into how exactly I'm going to do it...
