Day eleven: Today my mind is so full
of what I need to do to try to promote Letters that I have little space for
anything else. And what little space I have is filled with worrying about the
future and about getting the next book in the Zora series finished and edited
on time. This because in Zora’s Dawn I promised readers that the next book
would be released in September, thus giving me a deadline.
It’s on days like this that I wish
meditation worked for me. Maybe if I had persisted I would be able meditate
properly now. Or perhaps I should have continued with yoga, just doing it from
a website when I was no longer able to go to classes. I enjoyed yoga, the
stretching and exercise part of it. I wasn’t even close to the serenity you’re
supposed to achieve. Perhaps that comes with time and patience. Maybe if I
actually chose a yoga website and incorporated it into my daily routine I too would
be achieving serenity. Incorporating the yoga I mean, not the website, although
one does follow the other.
It’s pretty disheartening really, to
be back here in Stressville. I don’t like Stressville, it’s too small, too
constricting, too dark. I liked Peaceville, even though I lived in Penury
suburb. Still it was light and airy, full of possibilities. Hopefully I will be
able soon to go back to Penury suburb, and perhaps even move to Slightly Better
Off Lane. That lane has nice trees full of juicy Potential fruit.
In the meantime I’m trying to put a
positive slant on my current position. There are positives, I just have to not
allow the negatives to overwhelm me. I’m sure it’s just a twist in my journey –
a detour taking me to a necessary event or place on my way.
Anyway, today I will be searching
out Amazon reviewers to request a review. I need to get Letters seen, and since
I can’t afford a promotor I have to do what I can myself. There are Amazon
reviewers who have their own blogs and put their reviews on it. So if I can get
good reviews from a few of them it will improve the visibility of the book.
Amazon is such a huge site, I know I get overwhelmed by choice when I go on
there looking for a new read so it makes sense to be an objective of readers instead
of a random discovery.
I’ve been meaning to do this for a
few days now and haven’t because the internet is so bad this past week that I
haven’t been able to do a proper search. It’s enormously frustrating but I’m
hoping that today I will be able to get it done. I have had some lovely
feedback in the meantime from members of my writing group which has been so wonderful
to read. I also had an email yesterday from Amazon asking me if I wanted to
send a message to my followers about Letters. I didn’t even know I had
followers so that was a shining moment!
Thinking about that I have realized that
those followers are probably waiting for news about Zora’s Light, which has
reminded me that I need to get on with that. But priorities – if Letters sells
well almost all of my current stresses will evaporate. I’ll be able to move to
Can Pay The Bills Street, which joins Slightly Better Off Lane and has
brighter lights.
It’s a short blog today, since I
have this research to do and an uncertain internet connection. I'll write more
tomorrow, one of the random blog post topics maybe. See you then.
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