I find myself in a promotion lull. No matter what I try I don’t seem to get anywhere. Sales stink. I’ve tried Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, the classifieds, and I even have a nice vinyl sign in the back window of my truck. I have bumper stickers. I have a QR code I’m still trying to figure out what the hell to do with. My sales stink. Period. Which leaves me wondering what to try next. I’m not in the mood to give up. Do I rent a billboard? Stand on a corner dressed as an oversized book holding a sign directing drivers to my website?

I don’t really know what to do at this point. Twitter feels like a waste of my time. The Facebook and Goodreads ads feel like a waste of my time and my money. And I’m not made of money, so I can’t spend big bucks on advertisements.

Aside from all of that I have another issue: I’m extremely shy around people I don’t know. I’m not one of those bold people who can stand up in a crowd and say, “Look what I did! Buy my books! They rock!”. So trying to get on the radio or something probably wouldn’t work, I’d melt into a mortified lump of jello. I like to lay low. Stay behind the scenes. It’s why I write and am not a public personality. I don’t want people looking at me, I want them reading my books.

So what am I to do? Well, for right now I think I’m just going to concentrate on my writing. I’m gonna quit sweating it so much. Quit looking at my sales numbers every day. Quit spending hours on Twitter trying to come up with witty ads. I will, however, continue to promote other authors works on Twitter since it is as simple as the retweet button. Plus the fact there are some really splendid indie authors out there and I want people to know about them.

So….

Moonshadows is in the final stages of editing. It still needs a front cover, something which has been eluding me for quite some time now. I just need to grab my camera and go for a drive – like I used to do.

Just A Kiss Away has been through outside editing and needs the suggested corrections/changes made to it then needs to go through a few more rounds of editing. It also needs a front cover.

I’m writing the sequel to Just A Kiss Away right now too and I have about three other stories floating around in my head.

So, here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to do what I love doing. I’m going to write. I’m going to get to making those covers. I’m an artist for Pete’s sake. I took college courses in photography and art because it was what I wanted to do. It’s time I quit worrying about what everyone else thinks and just do what I love to do