Roy’s Comments (group member since Oct 13, 2008)

Roy’s comments from the Book Trailers (tm) & Author Web Sites group.

My first shot at making a book trailer. What do you guys think?

https://video214.com/play/r0PlyTjR0uZ...


Matters of Convenience

Hello. I have entered my novel Matters of Convenience in the Kindle Scout contest at Amazon. The link below will take you to an excerpt that went live 9/14 and will be up for 30 days. Hopefully you'll see fit to nominate MOC for a publishing deal from Kindle Press. Thank you very much in advance to those who show my book some love. If KP chooses to publish Matters of Convenience, everyone who nominated it will win a free copy.

https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/33R3...

As for my recently updated personal web site - I invite you to stop by http://www.roypickering.net

- Roy


Matters of Convenience

Attaching the cover of my latest novel, Matters of Convenience. Let me know what you think. And fyi - I have entered it Amazon's Kindle Scout contest. The link below will take you to an excerpt that went live 9/14 and will be up for 30 days. Please check it out if you care to and hopefully you'll see fit to nominate MOC for a publishing deal from Kindle Press. If KP chooses to publish Matters of Convenience, everyone who nominated it will win a free copy.

https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/33R3...


Matters of Convenience

Recently redesigned. Opinions welcomed. http://www.roypickering.net

I thought it was relatively pointless at first but now I'm really starting to get into the Twitter groove - http://twitter.com/AuthorofPatches

Thanks, Dee. My wife also mentioned that the site colors could use some editing. As good a place to start as any.

I know it isn't very impressive looking because I did it myself and have very limited web design skills, but fortunately it's pretty easy to set up a basic site nowadays even without being an html expert, allowing for the creation of http://www.roypickering.net

Suggestions, tips, advice no matter how critical on improvements will be appreciated.

Who doesn't get tremendous joy over staring at a piece of paper sometimes for an hour or more, narrowly avoiding an aneurysm while trying to figure out how to phrase a particular sentence "just right"? That plus the groupies, assuming they intend to show up at some point prior to my 90th birthday. Last but not least, I can never get enough hits when searching my own name on Google. Who was the famous philosopher that said - "I come up in Google searches, therefore I am"?




Patches of Grey

I'll pass your compliments along to Mrs. P, Dee and Gina.

Gina wrote: "Oh, and I have a facebook page for my book here. Has anyone else here put up a page just for their book? How is it working for you?

I didn't think I'd get any interest, but I get more clicks throu..."

Cool idea, Gina. I have a personal FaceBook page and must confess that I've become a bit hooked on the site, and I do reference my book on my page, but it didn't dawn on me to create a page specifically for the book.

Luckily I'm married to a very talented artist who designed my cover using one of her paintings at the very reasonable cost of nothing but gratitude.