Seasons of Marketing

When I last blogged, I mentioned that my nonfiction book, Seasons of Writing, was complete. Since I have not written on my blog since August of 2011, one would think that I was spending all this time marketing my book. I mean after all, I spent months writing it. Then more months editing it until I thought it was perfect. Then I sent it to someone else to do another round of edits.

Sadly, this was not the case. Granted, I did take the time to get it up and running on Amazon.com and I told a couple of friends and coworkers about it. And by chance, I was at an event where I met a woman who happened to be the president of a book club and they asked me to speak at one of their meetings and I was able to sell some of my books. Plus, I was able to reach out to a friend of a friend who has a book store who said that I could place a couple of my books in her store. But sadly all of that happened within a few months apart and there has been no movement yet.

Why? Time. It takes time to market your book and a lot of hard work. Challenging for me because time is limited since I have a fulltime job and hard because when I do have free time, I try to put in some writing.

What to do? I wrote Seasons partly because I wanted to write about struggles of writing and because I wanted to get something out there that had my name on it. When working on a novel and/or a script (I happened to be doing both) it can take years of crafting, drafting, rewriting and editing. And I was never really sold on the self-publishing aspect.

But here I am with a nonfiction book that I’m proud of but which is not moving. For me, it’s not about the money although if it does make me a lot that would be a plus. But I want to make sure that whenever someone Google’s my name it is always connected with writing and it looks good when agents or publishers are checking on your writing history.

So there lies the quandary. I have no choice but to put it in gear to get this baby moving.

In the next few months, I will take the necessary steps to market my book. Stay tune…