Last week posted a pair of vlogs (video blogs) instead of
written blogs. I’m trying some new things in the hopes of expanding my
readership.
One of the reasons I’m making videos is I believe that if
people saw me and got to know me as a person they’d connect with me. And that
relationship with readers would help them see my writing in a different light.
I really want people to see the man behind the stories and the blogs form a
relationship with him and see there is a person behind the fingers on the
keyboard.
The other reason for the vlogs is because I’ve been really busy. I’ve been working
on this new romance novel (more news about that coming soon) and it’s really
been coming together. I finally found my groove on this story and the words are
just coming to me. Characters are speaking to me in their own “voices” and the
story is telling itself. I’m
practically writing three chapters a day and I’ve had a lot of fun writing this
one.
On top of this new novel I’ve been editing three books for
the summer reading season. Two YA, and a nonfiction. I’m trying to get
everything right for the Isis/E’steem crossover paperbacks and eBooks and the
new Stop Simpin Second Edition. I want the quality on all three to match the
benchmark I established for Isis: Wrath of the Cybergoddess last summer that
was almost error free.
On top of that I’ve been working posting and promoting eBay
auctions. I’ve now got a year of sales experience on eBay and now that I’ve
learned the ins and outs of the auction site. Right now I’m using all I learned
about sales there towards my book marketing and promotion. Over the last year
I’ve built a reputation for excellent customer service, communication and
shipping product out in a timely manner. Some say I have the fastest shipping
on the site!
And in addition to the novel and the eBay auctions I’m still
promoting books. More titles will be coming to Kindle Unlimited this year like
the new Isis: Night of the Vampires and E’steem Undercover.
With the Isis/E’steem Crossover Kickstarter being a failure,
I have no idea what image will be on either cover. But both books will be out
Memorial Day weekend.
In other Isis series news Isis: The Beauty Myth will be
returning to Kindle Unlimited. After someone put the book on a site
for a lousy Kindle covers, I’m going to turn a negative into a positive. So I’m
going to give readers a chance to judge the book by its content, not its cover.
What many readers don’t know is that Isis: The Beauty Myth
ties directly into Isis: Wrath of the Cybergoddess, a book which features a
cover by Hero Business artist Bill Walko. I want readers to read both parts of
the story and they’ll get that opportunity this summer.
Smashwords readers will get the New Stop Simpin Second
Edition on Memorial Day Weekend. Just in time for the summer dating season. The
New Stop Simpin is expanded with lots of new information and I believe lots of
men will learn what NOT to do when it comes to approaching women. Like all the
other books in the Simp Trilogy the Stop Simpin Second Edition will be
FREE.
If you want the original Stop Simpin though GET IT NOW. The
eBook will be discontinued at the Start of Memorial Day weekend. However, I
urge readers to get the new Stop Simpin as the information in it is updated and
a lot more thorough in content than the previous version.
E’steem Undercover coming to the site later in the summer.
E’steem has a big following on Smashwords and I want to give them an
opportunity to add the book to the collection. Once the book is done on Kindle
Unlimited in May, I’m hoping to release it there in August.
E’steem: Undercover will also be the first E’steem book
available in paperback. I’m thiking of releasing an Essential E’steem paperback
so paperback readers can pick up her adventures. Unfortunately E’steem’s
stories are too short to put in single volumes.
Once I finish this new novel, I’ve got to get to work on the
editing of it. And writing the next adventures in the Isis and E’steem series.
Running outlines in my head for both.
All this work on the SJS DIRECT titles is like a full-time
job and I do it all while I continue to look for a full-time job. I believe I’ll
get another full-time job. One of these days. Putting in applications and
sending out resumes. Even posted several videos detailing what I bring to the
table for a business.
A new blog will be up on Thursday I hope. I’m working out a
schedule for videos and written blogs and I’m also pondering taking the blog
and my YouTube channel in a new direction.
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