Guess who doesn't need Twitter hemorrhaging followers right now? Me. Definitely me. I must have decided to pick the worst month to do a Kickstarter. What was I thinking? I completely forgot about NaNoWriMo, meaning author engagement will be down since they'll all be writing. And with most of my audience being authors...well...this could have been a better calculation. Now with Elon's takeover, I'm watching potential Kickstarter supporters melt away like anything during an Arizona July for the rest of the year. What. A. Pain.
Well, it doesn't matter. The Kickstarter must go on. People are already losing interest in my little novel. If it's not available for purchase soon, the rush from friends and family will fizzle into nothing before the book even hits the shelves.
I'm out of my depth regarding book marketing, but I'm confident in my ability to sell the novel. I've been researching many free places to advertise and a few with a price tag. I've got a good idea for my marketing plan, and I'm excited to start. The toughest thing will be signing up for all of the book social media sites. There are so many lesser-known ones that I think I might get a lot of traffic there.
This weekend, I turned my book into an EPUB, which was easier than I thought it would be. All I had to do was download Calibre, which was a piece of cake. My formatting is basic right now, but I'm going to add a little bit of pazzazz to it since I've got a few cute fonts I can use for chapter headings. I want to add a small image to the header, but I'm still unsure of what kind of image I'd want. Probably hands with flame or something like that.