Self Promoting and the magic of the imagination

So why is it so hard to promote the book that we've worked so hard on?

When you write a book, you live in that book for the duration of its creation; become friends, or maybe enemies with the characters. You may think you're in charge of the process, but sometimes there are forces at work within the imagination that we can never really understand.

Have you ever written a piece and then read it back and wondered where it came from? Or drawn an illustration that you can never recreate, because you're not really sure how you drew it in the first place? That is the magic of the imagination and of creativity - now if I can just harness that magic into promoting my book, instead of researching promotion only to fall into the clever marketing traps set by others and end up buying a product instead of selling one - but hey, there are worse things than buying another book, so I forgive myself...

Bookmarks for book promotions

New sheets of bookmarks hot off the press, to hand out at book signings, and with every book sold. The books all lined up for a photo shoot to get their faces on the new bookmarks.

Keeping it simple - with just the picture and the new website address Rummage4words.co.uk

Arghhh... I'm not sure technology is my friend - I rather suspect...

Arghhh... I'm not sure technology is my friend - I rather suspect it to be a huge ogre that thunders around the www, or an overgrown spider in its web, trying to ensnare the unwitting traveller or entrepreneur.
I think I may have further angered this ogre by binding my stories safely into paper books, where no amount of mischief can destroy them - not for my books the digital uncertainty of floating  about in a cloud to be tossed about in a cyber storm.
So how do I outwit this techno ogre and safely send these books out into the world...?

Author sharing the journey - even the wrong turns and dead ends...

So, my website is back on track and I've optimistically added the link to Rummage4words.co.uk to my blog. The current sticking point is the shop, but if you go to any of the online book sellers or bookshops, and ignore the not currently available notice, then your order will come through to me and I will dispatch your order to you - go on I dare you - let's do this!

For the books that need to be read - I will fight technology!

I've been having some website issues lately to the point where I'm coming back to my trusty blog to regroup. So where can I go form here? I have books relying on me to find homes for them and send them out into the world to be read...

The journey has been a long and varied one:

My books have been in book shops...

                                                                       and in library displays...

I bought bright orange envelopes - to send the books out into to the world in style.

I knitted sheep as quirky promotion...

...it worked, so I knitted more sheep.

I knitted some cats - the ginger one, not the tabby!

But most of all I've sat or stood behind my books at book signings and sold direct to readers.

...and played around with book displays.
                                               From books going on holiday...

...to a horse display, (yes I knitted the horse and knotted the hay net)

to promote my latest book.

So you see - I am determined - and I will launch my books out into the world!

#LostinaBook #rummage4words 

A book cover is like a door to a hidden world

A book cover is like a door to a hidden world – open that door and peep inside, but be careful – a book has the power to draw you inside and never let you go…

If you open that book and find it to be empty, then you must be the one who is meant to fill that book – fill it with something amazing…

First proper rain in over a month - the cats were thrilled!!

 

First proper rain in over a month - the cats were thrilled!!