Hey, long time no write.
So I just recently listened to a pod-caster, The Reluctant Book Marketer, and I was listening to one of his podcasts where you ask for your fame. The basis of it was you just have to ask people to buy your book.
The first thing that came to mind was what if I asked people to buy my book but I asked so many times they get annoyed and they never buy it. I got to talk to Jody, the guy who runs the podcast, and he gave me his personal experience trying to market his own podcast and also gave me some advice.
This is from the message, "I guarantee you'll sell a minimum of two books per 100 asks. And that personal connection is a future book buyer. That might sound miserable, but you only have to make the effort once and you have a core of fans who spent money on you."
It definitely sounds miserable when you have also heard that there is a reduction of people actually reading. However I do understand what he's getting at. In order to do this I'm going to have to put aside some time to do it and get out of my comfort zone and start bugging people.
Who knows maybe this will get me out of my writer's block too for the second book, I'm still stuck on how to continue a chapter to the next.
At this point you and I will see how all this transpires, write to you next time.