Steven Orlowski's Blog: Steve O's "So What?" Blog - Posts Tagged "promotion"

Well, sales did tick up a little initially. However my book is certainly not burning up the charts.

This is quite frustrating as I believe Pilgrimage is actually pretty good. I've even been told so by people who are not compelled to be nice to me based upon our relationship.

I think the ultimate lesson from my experience so far is that promotion is more important then I hoped it would be. I imagine most writers want to be discovered by readers simply by pushing the "publish" button at Kindle Direct Publishing. But with millions of other books to compete with that is unlikely to occur in all but a very few, fortunate cases.

So I will continue my journey of discovery and experimentation and hopefully I will build a loyal readership along the way.

Thanks to my GoodReads friends that have offered support, advice and bought my book. I'll keep everyone posted as time goes by and let you know what is and is not working in my world.