What I personally feel is my best book. About two adolescent boys in the year 2020. This was my tenth novel and I had to redo it so many times after editing so as to get it right that it just broke me for a while. I pulled no punches on any situation that children have to ace today.
I worked really hard on this one and pulled on a great deal of experience. Tried to make sure that any reader would constantly be led by the plot line. I just don’t know how I can get people to read it though. In process of changing cover to see if it will be a positive. It deals with a lot of the problems that today’s youth face. The main characters always come to a solution of integrity.
Can it be true that boys are a hard sell because of so much electronic entertainment? Jamie goes after this world in great detail in the novel.
My grandson and I got this big fella last week. Beavers can help make great habitats for other animals, but when it comes at the cost of acres of farmland, well, farmers are none too happy.
My grandson is a handsome boy but I’m letting him keep his privacy.
Coyotes are a problem here in Lambton County. They are overpopulated and are attacking and killing livestock. They are also showing up on the outskirts of town, threatening pets.
Took this one out yesterday. It was like a sauna out in the creek bottoms.
Marketing Takes Money and Work. Whether one likes it or not there isn’t much chance of selling very many books unless you are famous or fortunate. I wrote my first novel just expecting that people would see the title, like it and buy the product. It doesn’t work that way. My publisher, Dawn Stillwell, has enrolled me into an advertising program on FB. Thus far it has cost approximately a dollar for every two bucks worth of revenue that goes into my bank account. It might not sound like much but the result is positive enough to involve me in the process of stepping up the amount I pour into the program this fall. It’s good business to make one hundred percent on your investment. I’ll spend a thousand to get back two thousand any day of the week.
Targeting specific audiences is also crucial. If you want to sell a murder/mystery, it’s not really a brilliant move to promote it to people who only read romance novels.
I’ve learned in the scheme of life, that if I do not promote myself no one else will either. We all live with the dream that with every book we sell, someone with some clout will say, “I like it!”, and give us a hand getting our product to a bigger market. I’m sold on the rule that success will always come to those who work the hardest while never giving up. It’s also an absolute that one must have someone working with them when it comes to selling books, keeping web pages up to date, etc. Team work is so crucial in life.
Starting to turn my books into audio novels. I’m a storyteller and really not a writer. It will be a lot of work but it is the only way to make the stories come to life the way I feel them. There are so many skip readers today that simply go for the movie version of the story rather than perceive the truths that are hidden in the cracks and crevasses of the written book. There are so many ways to make a statement come across differently.
Words can easily just become words when emotion, situation, insinuation, attitude, mood, etc., are left out of the picture. Deep readers tend to pick up on the the reality of the entire story while skip or speed readers simply robotize the tale.
Interviewing voice talents now and pressing into getting this done! Check back for news!
Carl Hnatyshyn of Post Media reached out to me and wrote an article about me and my books!
You can view that article here! Thanks Carl! And thanks to my editor, Dawn, who put the bug in Carl’s ear!