Neil Ostroff's Blog – June 2011 Archive (8)

So those of you who have been following my blog know that I recently published

my first ebook AFTER and I detailed the marketing and promotion strategy in this

blog. Well, just as I'm about to begin the process of releasing my next ebook

DROP OUT, I learn a very valuable lesson that probably put five months of

promotion in the toilet. AFTER has sold copies, though not nearly as many as I'd

hoped considering I'd spent months marketing and currently my combined…

Well, it's happening again. I've got the cover nearly complete for my new ebook DROP OUT. I'm currently tweaking the pitch for it and I must say, a website called http://www.mywriterscircle.com helped greatly. I posted my summary and got lots of free feedback which was awesome! I can't believe how much time some people took in editing my sample. It was like getting a dozen free edits. I highly recommend that site ansd also the Kindle forums.…

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I recently discovered a great site for free feedback on your writing. It's:

Mywriterscircle.com.  I put up the first chapter of my new sci/fi novel

INSECTLAND and already have more than 60 views and ten comments on improvement.

Wow. The only catch is that you have to read and comment on others writing. But

hey, there's no longer a need to pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars for

editing when you can get it free!! These writers on the site are good, too.…

Thanks to all who commented and followed me on the tour. Unfortunately, I ran

out of time to comment on everyone but I did manage to leave a few and like and

repost most of your blogs. But now it's time to move on. I've been marketing

AFTER for several weeks now and it's exhausting work. I have managed several

sales and have gottten a lot of exposure but it is taking away from my true

love... creating my own worlds. I've decided to publish my next book by…

To all of you on the blogolicious tour today I apologize. My computer keeps

locking up for some reason when I use the links. I'm "liking" and posting

everyone's blog on Facebook and Twitter as best I can but I'm having a hard time

commenting. Unfortunately, I'm running out of time to figure this out and have

to go to my job that pays my bills soon. If this helps, I'm posting everyone's

blog here.

Again, I apologize to everyone participating that I'm too dumb to…

Spending three hours a day plugging away at Kindle sites and forums is finally starting to pay off. I've had sales. And not sales from family and friends. But actual sales from strangers. It's pretty amazing what the new technology is offering writers who don't like to travel and promote outside the house. I only dream of going viral and waking up one morning to a hundred thousand sales. I'd appreciate if my blog followers participated in this dream. LOL. I have AFTER priced on Kindle at…

Sorry it's been a while since I wrote. Nicer weather means more work and less time to write, which I hate. So anyway, on to AFTER and what's been happening. I've been promoting pretty heavily on Kindle forums and the results have been pretty awesome. Not so much in sales, but exposure. My posts so far are averaging about 100 views per day, which is pretty awesome considering each post lists my sites. I've noticed an increase in hits as a result. I've also started commenting on other…