I didn’t have May Goals, so my title is a bit deceptive.
The only goal I really had was to finish book 2 of my series, and I did that. I’m taking a little breather before I start editing book one. I would like to edit books one and two, so when I finish book four, the editing won’t be such a massive undertaking. Book two finished out at 76,000 words, which is 6,000 more words than book one. But now that I know the characters better, when I edit book one, I could easily add a few more words to that, and write in some foreshadowing of other books since I failed to do that the first time around.
I did manage to change the covers to my trilogy, on all the ereader platforms, and even Ingram, which was pretty cool. I won’t rehash any of that–I’ve written other blog posts about it so . . .
The problem is, there isn’t any next. I mean, nothing I wouldn’t be doing anyway. Outlining books three and four, and just editing my life away, while try to stay on top of this blog.
Speaking of blogs, I need to type out some of Autumn’s blog posts. She’s a character in the series who writes a blog for the newspaper. I thought it would be fun extra content to type out the blog interviews of other characters that she talks about in the books. I don’t have a good place to post those. I thought about creating a free website for her using something like Wix, and trying to make that look like her newspaper’s website, but I don’t know how much time I want to take doing that. Especially since I have a standalone book brewing in the back of my mind already for when this series is complete. I could add a tab to my own website, but how long do I want to keep them up? I’ll keep writing them and transcribing them, and after I get them all done, I’ll decide then.
I’ll continue to look at stock photos to see what i can come up with for covers. I hated doing my trilogy. Four books should be even more fun.
I edited for a friend, and that took a bit of time, but I like editing, and her story is sounding fantastic!
I guess that’s about all I have for my May goals. I always know what needs to be done if I want to propel my career forward. That usually means writing fast and writing good, quality work while still being anchored to the land of the living.
I bought a promo for Don’t Run Away for the middle of June. It’s permafree, and I purchased it from Freebooksy. I plan to mark down my other two books in the trilogy to .99 for the rest of the month to encourage read-through rates. My main goals while finishing this series and preparing it for release is pushing my books out there. I need reviews and exposure.
I got turned down again for another Kobo promotion, but I’ll keep trying. As a new author without reviews on that site for any of my books, it will be difficult to be approved, I think.
But, it is what it is.
I’ll share how my wide adventures are going in another blog post.
Thanks for reading!
Don’t Run Away: books2read.com/dont-run-away
Chasing You: books2read.com/Chasing-You
Running Scared: books2read.com/running-scared
Wherever He Goes: books2read.com/whereverhegoes1
All of Nothing: books2read.com/allofnothing1
The Years Between Us: books2read.com/the-years-between-us
graphics made with photos and font from canva.com
If you do a newsletter you could possibly share the character blog posts there. Could be something fun for your subscribers.
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For sure. 🙂 But starting a newsletter is not something I want to do right now. I don’t have a reader magnet, don’t have time to write one. Haha. Okay, I thought that the blog posts would be the reader magnet, and maybe that’s what you thought, too. 😛 The only thing that would make sense with little to no work is to put a tab on my website and add the link to the backs of the books, sending all my traffic to my website. All roads should lead back to your hub, is what I’ve gathered. I guess we’ll see. I’m behind in transcribing what I have and writing new ones. Sigh. 🙂
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LOL I get it, and yes, it could be a magnet of sorts. I have a newsletter, but only send out when I have something to share. I’ve not done any of those reader magnet things either. People find it by the back of my books or if they stumble upon my website or blog. I’m all for the least amount of work LOL so hopefully you find a way to share without creating too much of an additional headache for yourself. 🙂
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thanks! more than likely i’ll cram them into the end of book four. while i hear all the shrieks of dismay at a lost opportunity LOL
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