Author of not-quite-cozy Christian fiction
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An independent author, especially one just starting out, must become a Jack, or Jill of all trades, writer, promoter, and designer. To that end, I have been learning to use the free image manipulation software products Gimp and Paint.net. The results are above.
I haven’t become an expert, by any means, but I was able to give my Bunny Elder Series covers a more cohesive look, and that’s a start.
I tried to find an affordable cover designer, but most wanted me to select the images and do the creative designing for them to manipulate into cover images, when what I really wanted was someone to design and produce the covers. One day I hope to be able to pay the costs of truly professional cover design, because I know how important that is, but for now, I’ve managed to get one step closer.
I promised an update on last week’s promo: For the week long promo I had a sales bump of 21 full price copies of The First Ladies Book Club. Sales had been pretty flat, so this is a good increase. It paid for the promo spot, but I don’t think the full-price promos are very effective, currently.
I’m in the process of re-designing all my covers, changing the meta data and waiting for a couple of titles to come off KDP Select, so I can set the first in the Bunny Elder series at perma-free. Once that is accomplished, I will begin to run free book promos and see how that goes.
After today, I’m taking a break from promotion to concentrate on writing my WIP, The body in the Belfry, preparing for speaking engagements and redesigning the series covers to add coherence to my brand.
Please help me go out with a bang with this promotion of The First Ladies Club on the fkbt.com promotion network by going to www.fkbt.com, to check out the New Releases feature spot, then hop on over to their Facebook page www.facebook.com/fkbooks.
fkbt says: We would also appreciate asking your fan members to give the post a “Like” on the blog’s web page for this specific post once it goes live, as the Facebook computers will publicize the post to more people not directly connected to the blog based upon the level of “Likes” for a given post: more exposure is what you want for your book today!
If you have read and enjoyed this book, this is a great opportunity to let your friends know. Please also consider posting a review.
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Authors and their readers are on this journey together, and I thank you so much for all your encouragement and feedback.
Next week I will report on the success of our efforts.
Thanks!
