OK, so I was going to have a proper online Facebook Launch Party. You know the sort of thing: you get an invite, you accept, and then at a specified time, you rock up online and wonder where all the cake is and who drank the sparkly white wine.
Only, here on what I like to think off as Planet Stupid, it didn't quite happen like that. Instead, I got a text message from Talented Daughter early on the Saturday morning after we'd uploaded Jigsaw Pieces saying 'Your book's on Amazon. Just downloaded a copy.' Bit of a shock, as I thought it would take a couple of days.
This was followed by a second text message: 'I've put it on my Facebook page, and sent the link to yours. Going back to bed.' So that was it. Not so much a launch, more of an escape. After I'd got over the shock, I checked, in case she'd made some sort of mistake, easy thing to do at 8am on a Saturday morning, but no, there it was.
And when I checked my Facebook page, there it was again. And someone else had downloaded a copy. Which meant that in the space of 6 minutes, I'd made enough money to buy ... ooh, half a small espresso. Which was very exciting.
And the excitement just kept on coming. I tagged Jigsaw Pieces - actually, I put in so many tags that I might just as well have copied out the whole plot into the tag box. I think the only thing I didn't tag it under was 'fairies', although I could have got that wrong.
Following on from that, several kind members of the writing community generously stepped up to the publicity plate, and are recklessly closing their eyes and letting me loose on their author sites, thus saving me from issuing one of those sad ads you see at the back of newspapers:
Ebook Publicity Virgin 62, GSOH, and cake, needs help, advice, and guest blogs. All offers gratefully accepted.
To you (you know who you are) I say a massive 'thanks'. To everyone else, I say: please check the sad ad! Better still, download Jigsaw Pieces and read it for yourself, because as you can see, I am to self-promotion what fish are to cycling. Proof: I have reached the end of another blog without telling you anything constructive about the story, like who Billy Dunne really was, and how I became, temporarily, a World War 1 poet. Another time, I promise
Meanwhile my series of Great Guest Blogs continues with my very good friend, writer Juliet Archer. Do not miss her!
I have my copy of Jigsaw Pieces on my Kindle. As soon as I dig out of these edits long enough to finish the book I'm reviewing, I'll be diving in. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Kelly - appreciate it!
DeleteFacebook Launch Party? Virtual wine and cake? At least that would keep the weight off (mine, not yours - you're depressingly slim). But let's celebrate with the real thing next time we meet up ...
ReplyDeleteWe shall!!
ReplyDeleteReally like the cover of Jigsaw Pieces, very mysterious!
ReplyDeleteLooks like the book is doing well even without the launch party! I do not own an ereader- but I will tell my friends! Jigsaw Pieces looks and sounds like a great book. Here's to many sales and lots of reading. :)
ReplyDelete~Jess
Thank you. I do not have long (!) to get this out there....
DeleteHello Carol, I learned about your book from Kelly's blog. Congrats on its launch!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Nice of you to visit me!!! Kelly is a great writer friend and support. Love her!
DeleteCongratulations on the book. Very funny post, Carol! I love the WWI poets. Are you a Siegfried Sassoon or a Wilfred Owen?
ReplyDeleteHelen - thanks for stopping by. As they say: you'll have to read the book to find out!
DeleteConsider me followed! ah... launch party, schmlaunch (??) party! Who cares? At the end of t'day, like (as they say on Jeremy Kyle) the people who buy it on that day would probably have bought it anyway. Should you care for a mutual tagging, just say the word!
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