Sci-Fi, fantasy and speculative Indie Authors Review discussion

Hello, Indies. This may be my first post in the group, so let me preface it by wishing you all a general "Good Luck" with your own activities. And if there are any readers dipping in as well, "Hi" to you too!

I've been self-publishing since the start of 2015, but I'm not in a position right now to commit money to the endeavour so my marketing efforts have been fairly limited. My first novel was published last May, so I'd been hosting author interviews since mid-2014 and occasionally guest-posting elsewhere online. That book (The Glass Sealing) is off the shelves now as unfortunately the publisher went under about a month ago, but I've been maintaining my early attempts at promotion while I release other things.

I thought I'd share some blogging I did over the last couple of weeks as examples of what I'll be trying out over the next month: mixing original short articles about the genre I'm writing in with teasers about my stories. The hope is that I'll provide some general value to fans of the genre while, obviously, attracting a bit of attention to my work as well. Dark Matters: Absences contains two examples of what I'm choosing to call "intrapocalyptic fiction" (my label for not-quite-post-apocalyptic, which you're welcome to use!).

The Birds, The Birds, and No More Birds
This is about du Maurier's short and Hitchcock's adaptation, and how they inspired the first story in my collection.

The Death of Grass, No Blade of Grass, and Just a Single Blade
This is about the John Christopher novel, and how it inspired the second story in my collection.

COMING SOON – “The lines, the trees, the cliffs, the eaves”
This is an excerpt from story one, and...

COMING SOON – “The Blade”
...yes, this is an excerpt from story two.

I put pre-order links on the last two posts in case any readers were interested. Unlike Dark Matters, the first book in this series (unlike almost all my books, in fact), this one actually has some pre-orders already. I'm not claiming that this means this approach is solid gold, but I've already planned something similar for later in the month to support the third book (which contains more conventional post-apocalyptic fiction).

Any thoughts on the approach (or the articles themselves) would be much appreciated - but thanks if you read this or them either way!

Best of luck. Your technique sounds well thought out. Even after half a century as a professional writer, it's always difficult to predict what will "click" on any given day.

Kind of you to say, but it was more fun to do than effective!