Sometimes you just have to tell the story
Amid my self-absorption marketing our little cherub and writing Book II, my selfless wife, my dear, darling Leigh, surprised the heck out of me last Saturday night by throwing a surprise book launch party. So many lovely friends, family members, early book supporters and fans gave me their good cheer and warm embrace.
Here’s a photo from the event, with more to view at my FB page: www.facebook.com/scottcsmithauthor
One aspect of all this I find somewhat remarkable is that the self-pub indie-author gurus were right. OK, so that sounds dumb. Of course they were right – they’re gurus!
Book I has pubbed, it’s creeping along, advertising has accounted for some sales, I’m losing money on advertising but not that much, and it’s creating awareness of the book, on Amazon and on Facebook. My KU reads have jumped, up to about 2500, which seems to go in synch with the FB ad. I know it’s not going to skyrocket, my preference for that notwithstanding. I know I need to get a second book in the series published, and that’s moving right along. Everything is pretty much going to plan.
There are many more tricks of the trade to learn and practice, but as many of the guru folks say, take on only what I can, and be sure to focus on the next book. All good.
I love the idea behind the book and believe it’s commercially viable. I picture a fabulous film in my mind whenever I think about it. But we’ll let that simmer. I still get weird looks when I talk about the book. I ran into a friend at a restaurant who had heard I had a book out. She asked me as I paused to say hello, “What’s it about?” I said, “I only have 30 seconds now; I’d need two hours.” She said, “Well, just briefly, give me an idea.” I paused, thought, and said, “It’s about queer superheroes.” My friend’s dinner mate dropped her fork and eyes bugged out. My friend laughed and said, “Send me the link!”
That’s the thing, it takes a long while to adequately describe what I’m doing here. I’ll talk more about it here as we go along. Now, back to Book II. Peace