A Blur

The past week has been a blur. Not a blur of activity, nor from a week-long drunken binge, but a blur of sustained excitement, anxiety and also self-inflicted boredom.

The bordeom comes from a needy compulsion to repeatedly refresh certain webpages, looking for feedback. Biting my nails. Hoping that "they" liked it.

So far, "they" have, and "they" have been lovely. I've had encouraging feedback, and have seen people I don't know, who have paid for my work go out and recommend it to others (and only with the slightest of begging from me for them to do so! Hah!). It's a bit surreal, really.

Also, blogging isn't for me. I'm having to talk about myself a lot to sell my book, but I don't want to (talk, that is, not *not* sell my book. Eeek!). I'm boring, but I've written a funny story. Read that, not me! :-P

But what next? Some more Twitter followers would be nice. But that's a chicken and egg thing...I'm not tweeting due to lack of followers, and maybe they're not following due to a lack of tweets. Feels stupid to tweet to an empty room, but I guess I'll have to do so. I think the Twitter account will work better if there end up being a pile of people out there waiting for a second novel. Another surreal thought.

Time to investigate other outlets besides Amazon, I think. And to walk the edge of the blade that is forum self-promotion. People trying to sell you things. Yep, it makes my top ten pet hates, so Im sorry, but, would you buy my book? ;)
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Published on February 13, 2012 05:58 Tags: amazon, forum, jim-chaseley, kindle, self-publishing, twitter, z14
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message 1: by Lubna (new)

Lubna Hi Jim
This wanna-be author is now scared stiff. By the way, I tried to look up your blog, perhaps the problem lies with my internet service, but it did not load. 8-(
GoodReads is loading and working just fine, but your blog isn't. Could you also check it?
Keep the faith. Good luck with the book.
Best,
Lubna


message 2: by Jim (new)

Jim Chaseley Ah, there's nothing to be scared of...except upsetting readers on the Amazon forums!

Seriously though, don't let anything I say scare you. I've had a lot of fun this past month, watching how my book has been doing, but it does get tedious going around blowing your own trumpet, but trying to do it so quietly you don't actually bother anybody.

Trying to go to my blog would probably be failing because I don't have one. This post you've commented on proved to be just about my last attempt at turning myself into a blogger. :)

I do have a website, but even that is already falling by the wayside. I shall have to update it soon!

Oh, hang on...you already mean http://www.jimchaseley.com don't you? Yeah, it doesn't seem to be working at all, does it? I'd better get onto my tech guy! Thanks for spotting that!


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