Day 256: Marketing stuff

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Oh man! I nearly forgot to schedule my newsletter announcement and blog posts for my Celebration Lit blog tour starting on the 15th. I spent some time before writing today in order to do that before I forgot.

I’ve done blog tours before for other books and they never seemed to get me much traction, but I decided to pay for a blog tour run by somebody else for the first book of my new series because I really wanted to get more book reviews at least for book 1. What also appealed to me was that I wouldn’t have to be the one organizing it, and also Celebration Lit has a HUGE number of bloggers who can volunteer for the tour, much more than I could scrounge up myself.

So I decided to try the blog tour and see how it works. If I get a lot of good promotion from it and see an increase in sales, I might save up money to do the blog tour for other books in the series, or maybe when I do a box set of the first 2 or 3 books in the series.

Unfortunately my back started hurting, and I also started getting a headache (might be connected). But I am going to try to get the rest of the editing done today so I can just focus on writing.

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Well, the headache got a lot worse, so I didn’t get any editing or writing done. I did try to do some when the headache finally went away in the early evening, but my back is still bothering me and it was too uncomfortable for me to concentrate.

I think I’m just going to go to bed early and try to get more done tomorrow.

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