How do you sell a book?

[RiggerLee 63]

First, no I'm not dead.

Life has been kind of crazy here over the last few years. The phrase is overcome by events.

But while I've been setting around on my ass I was board, like really board. So board that... wait for it... I wrote a book.

Setting here patently waiting for the laughter to die down...

Still waiting...

Try not to hurt your self...

A paper bag will help with that...

Can you control your self now? Good.

So it's a very typical run of the mill scifi novel. I can confidently say that it is as poor as any first novel ever written.

So the question on the floor is how do you con, sorry I meant persuade, people into giving you money for a book? You know I'm not a salesman. I hate fucking salesmen. I don't have that gene. Has anyone ever written and tried to sell a book? How do you do it?

Where it's at right now:

Hired an artist, cover is done.

Hired an editor, feel sorry for this poor bastard, he had no idea what he was walking into. Editing is done.

Managed to format it. I think it looks pretty good on the inside.

Published it on Amazon through Kindle direct publishing. It's up right now in paperback, hardback, and e-book.

Rather then go with Kindle Select/Kindle unlimited I started serializing it on RoyalRoad and on Wattpad. I thought I might get some traction there and it has been getting some views but they have not translated into sales.

Tried to sign up with Amazon Sponsored Product Advertising. Got booted because there is a gun firing on the cover.

Signed up with GoodReads. Tryed to do a giveaway through them but my ad was rejected for being insensitive.  It's a note you can send to those not selected in the drawing. It was funny as shit but they didn't like it. So no giveaway on GoodReads. Might have dodged a bullet there. If my response to the losers that were not accepted in the drawing offended them then I shudder to think what they would have made of the book. Rather then a hundred glowing reviews I could have gotten a hundred pieces of hate mail.

Not sure what to try next. As you can tell this is not my lane.

Oh, I guess I should post the book here. I so suck at this.

Trapped in Time

This story is being serialized here as a promotion.

This book is available on Amazon in print. It is also available on Amazon in e-book. 

Feel free to continue reading on those platform

 

I copied that from RR. Wow that looks funky.

And the cover looks funky. It's way bigger then that. What's up with that? Can you see it?

Lee

[RiggerLee 63]

Oh, cool the cover actually loaded.

Win.

Lee