Like many other authors have mentioned on the various author groups I'm in, I've been in kind of a writing slump. At first I was excited to have all of my time to myself back in mid-March when high schools went on-line, so no subs were needed. It gave me the time I needed to self-publish some of my orphaned "babies" who'd been abandoned when a publisher closed. Then I wrote and got a couple of new books published. Now, 38 weeks into the quasi lock-down, I'm overwhelmed by the unrelenting sameness of my days.
I've got at least three separate books in various stages in my laptop. But promoting is eating up a lot of my time. I've never done so much promotion since I first got published, 11 years ago! I haven't really noticed a sales bump--but then, lots of folks are out of work, so the few times I've run promotions that allowed free downloads saw the most amount of action. I totally understand! I'm on a tight budget now too.
But in participating in the recent TBR Love Romance Week, I won a few free ebooks myself! Woot! I've been reading for a couple of hours almost every night, and having new books to read is great! And as an author, I know how important it is to have reviews, both to encourage others to check out the books, but also to get those all-important algorithms to notice that my name is being mentioned more.
So I've started reviewing for the TBR site. Not only am I reviewing everything I read anyway, but this way I get more free books to read! I delete most of them after I finish the review. But the other benefit is hey, at least I'm writing something! Here's the link to my most recent review: thetbrpile.weebly.com/reviews/review-all-wrapped-up-anthology
And if you're an author and you'd like to trade books for reviews with me, let me know, either in the comments below, or via email--it's on the last page of my website, under Olio, along with my Busia's Polish recipes.
I've got at least three separate books in various stages in my laptop. But promoting is eating up a lot of my time. I've never done so much promotion since I first got published, 11 years ago! I haven't really noticed a sales bump--but then, lots of folks are out of work, so the few times I've run promotions that allowed free downloads saw the most amount of action. I totally understand! I'm on a tight budget now too.
But in participating in the recent TBR Love Romance Week, I won a few free ebooks myself! Woot! I've been reading for a couple of hours almost every night, and having new books to read is great! And as an author, I know how important it is to have reviews, both to encourage others to check out the books, but also to get those all-important algorithms to notice that my name is being mentioned more.
So I've started reviewing for the TBR site. Not only am I reviewing everything I read anyway, but this way I get more free books to read! I delete most of them after I finish the review. But the other benefit is hey, at least I'm writing something! Here's the link to my most recent review: thetbrpile.weebly.com/reviews/review-all-wrapped-up-anthology
And if you're an author and you'd like to trade books for reviews with me, let me know, either in the comments below, or via email--it's on the last page of my website, under Olio, along with my Busia's Polish recipes.
